The Jerk (1979)
12
14/12/1979 (GB)
Comedy
1h 34m
- 69% (835 votes)
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A rags to riches to rags story.
Overview
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back 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.
- Carl ReinerDirector
- Steve MartinScreenplay
- Carl GottliebScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$100,000,000
Keywords
- blow
- neominstrelsy
- phone book
- sharecropper
- tennis court
Top Billed Cast
Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson
Bernadette Peters
Marie Kimble Johnson
Catlin Adams
Patty Bernstein
Mabel King
Mother
Richard Ward
Father
Carl Gottlieb
Iron Balls McGinty
Dick Anthony Williams
Taj
Bill Macy
Stan Fox
M. Emmet Walsh
Madman
Dick O'Neill
Frosty
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