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Jerk, The
Jerk, The
Stars: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Jackie MasonDirector: Carl Reiner
Summary: The adopted son of a poor black family creates crazy inventions which lead him from rags to riches to rags.
Navin Johnson, a none-too-bright white boy raised by a family of black sharecroppers, somehow manages to reach adulthood without ever discovering he was adopted. His parents finally tell him the truth on his birthday and, shocked by the news, he decides to head off to the big city to seek his fortune. Although he embarks on his odyssey with Candide-like optimism, Navin soon learns the cruel ways of the world as his crazy invention--a device to stop one's glasses from sliding--leads him from rags to riches and back to rags. Steve Martin is riotous in this no-holds-barred broad slapstick comedy, with Bernadette Peters playing his accepting love interest. Jackie Mason, M. Emmet Walsh, and Bill Macy are excellent in small roles, but the focus is always on Martin, who is at his goofy best in a film loaded with hysterical sight gags and a dog whose name cannot be said on television.
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Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?) brought comic Steve Martin to the screen in this mostly funny 1979 movie about a relentlessly stupid but innocent man, whom we get to know from childhood (where it never occurred to him that he was white as he was raised by a family of black sharecroppers) to romance (where he doesn't quite know what to do with Bernadette Peters). Martin is game as the moron, and this is the kind of film with funny moments people still talk about. --Tom Keogh
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.33 Full Screen |
| Main Language: | English |
| Region: | Region 2 |
| Special Features: | Theatrical trailer, Production notes, Cast and filmmakers' notes |
| Subtitles: | Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Year: | 1979 |
| Release Date: | November 3, 2008 |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Certification: | |
| Catalogue Number: | 8200255 |
| Keywords: | Comedy, General, Jerk |
| Genre: | Comedy |
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