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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.
Dec 14, 1979 · The Jerk: Directed by Carl Reiner. With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King. A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.
Here's some of the greatest gags, jokes and one-liners from The Jerk starring Steve Martin!From The Jerk: a simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly deci...
82% Tomatometer 44 Reviews 84% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings Navin (Steve Martin) believes he was born a poor black child in Mississippi. He is, however, actually white.
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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. Comedy · Charming · Coarse · Fun. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $14.99. More purchase. options. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Details.
Dec 5, 2014 · 1.85M subscribers. Subscribed. 1.3K. 312K views 9 years ago #SteveMartin #TheJerk. The Jerk (1979) SYNOPSIS: Navin (Steve Martin) believes he was born a poor black child in Mississippi. He...
His life is happy until the day he learns the truth, and is sent out into the world to earn his way. He hits the road wearing a World War II bomber's helmet and goggles. OK. “The Jerk” wants us to laugh at this material just at the most basic level. Martin is white and thinks the blacks are his parents, ha, ha.
Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is a dim-witted White man who was adopted as an infant by a poor rural southern Black family. Never able to follow the beat of Rhythm and Blues or Gospel, one day as a young man he hears a Lawrence Welk song on the radio and able to follow the beat, he realizes there is more to the world than the 2 room shack ...
Dec 31, 2019 · Steve Martin in The Jerk. Andrew Buss. December 31, 2019 | 12:00pm ET. Oral History offers the most comprehensive retelling of a pop culture artifact. “I was born a poor black child…” This may be one of the funniest lines ever committed to film, and it’s spoken within the first minute of The Jerk.
The Jerk. That wild and crazy guy, Steve Martin, makes his film-starring debut in the wacky comedy hit The Jerk. Steve plays Navin Johnson, the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches... right back to rags.
