Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson/Cat Juggler/Pig Eye Jackson/Engineer Fred
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Dec 14, 1979 · A simpleminded country boy leaves his family home and faces various adventures in the big city. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this hilarious film.
- (64K)
- Comedy
- Carl Reiner
- 1979-12-14
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, and Michael Elias (from a story by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb). This was Martin's first starring role in a feature film. The film also features Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Catlin Adams, Maurice Evans, and Jackie Mason.
Navin (Steve Martin) believes he was born a poor black child in Mississippi. He is, however, actually white. Upon figuring this out, he heads north to St. Louis to find himself. After landing a ...
- (44)
- Carl Reiner
- R
- Steve Martin
Advertisement. “The Jerk” is all gags and very little comedy. After Martin hits the road, he has a series of adventures as a gas pump jockey, a weight-guesser in a sideshow, a hapless lover of Bernadette Peters, an inventor of a gadget to keep your eyeglasses from falling down. All of these gag situations are milked for one-time laughs.
The Jerk. An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis. 7,796 IMDb 7.1 1 h 34 min 1979. X-Ray R.
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Steve Martin. ... Navin / Cat Juggler (as Pig Eye Jackson also) Bernadette Peters. ... Marie. Catlin Adams.
A comedy film about a naive country boy who leaves his adoptive Black family and tries to make it big in St. Louis. He invents a device that makes people cross-eyed, but loses everything when he is sued.
