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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.
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, Caitlin Adams, Maurice Evans, and Jackie Mason.
The Jerk (1979) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Carl Reiner The Celebrity (as Carl Reiner The Celebrity)
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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. Yet that one simple phrase subverts any expectations for Carl Reiner ’s ...
In Carl Reiner: Film directing. Reiner then made The Jerk, one of the biggest hits of 1979 and the film that launched comedian Steve Martin on the path to screen stardom. Martin starred as a dim-witted man who, after discovering that—unlike his adoptive parents—he is not Black, moves to St. Louis, where he…. Read More.
The Jerk is a classic comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin as a naive and clueless man who goes on a hilarious journey of self-discovery. The Guardian ranks it as the 24th ...
