The Jerk
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1979
1h 34m
R
English
Comedy
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The Jerk
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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Cast
Navin R. Johnson
Marie Kimble Johnson
Patty Bernstein
Mother
Father
Iron Balls McGinty
Stan Fox
Madman
Frosty
Hobart
Hester
Elvira
Punk #1
Blues Singer
Blues Singer
Harry Hartounian
Con Man
Self
Circus Hand (uncredited)
Carnival Worker (uncredited)
Truck Driver Picking Up Navin (uncr...
Guy with Cracked Airplane Seats (un...
Con Man
Directed By: Carl Reiner
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Wuchak
6 years ago
***Steve Martin’s breakout comedy***
A homeless mentally-challenged man (Steve Martin) shares his amusing tale of rags-to-riches-to-hobo with flashbacks. Catlin Adams plays a stunt rider at a carnival who has the hots for Navin (Martin) while Bernadette Peters plays a more important woman in hi More
A homeless mentally-challenged man (Steve Martin) shares his amusing tale of rags-to-riches-to-hobo with flashbacks. Catlin Adams plays a stunt rider at a carnival who has the hots for Navin (Martin) while Bernadette Peters plays a more important woman in hi More
drqshadow
/10 5 years ago
Steve Martin famously aimed for a laugh on every page of _The Jerk_'s script, and he just might have hit the mark. There's no reason for this to work as well as it does - it's intentionally stupid, from the ridiculous opening lines ("I was born a poor black child") to the absurd More
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