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The Jerk (1979) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 28, 1998
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Studio Aspen Film Society, Universal
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Other Titles
• The Jerk
• Easy Money (1977)
• Reichtum ist keine Schande (1980)
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Genre: Comedy, Slapstick, Tragedy, Satire, Campy
Tagline: A rags to riches to rags story
Plot: 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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- Jerk, Too, The (1984) [sequel]
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| Directed by |
Carl Reiner
The Man with Two Brains, All of Me, Summer School |
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| Written by |
Steve Martin
Bowfinger, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, The Prince of Egypt |
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| Cast |
Steve Martin
Bowfinger, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, The Prince of Egypt |
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Scrooged, The Wiz, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | | | Bill Macy
Analyze This, Surviving Christmas, My Favorite Year | |
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| Music By |
Jack Elliott
Oh, God!, Sibling Rivalry, Support Your Local Gunfighter |
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