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 and embarks on a series of hilarious adventures in the big city. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Carl Reiner-directed film.
- (62K)
- 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, Caitlin Adams, Maurice Evans, and Jackie Mason.
- December 14, 1979
The Jerk is a 1979 film starring Steve Martin as Navin, a white man who thinks he is black and goes on a series of hilarious adventures. The film has an 82% Tomatometer and an 84% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on critics' and viewers' reviews, ratings, and videos.
- (3.4K)
- Carl Reiner
- R
- Steve Martin
The Jerk. An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis. 7,772 IMDb 7.1 1 h 34 min 1979. X-Ray R. Comedy · Charming · Coarse · Fun. Available to rent or buy. Rent movie. HD $4.29 $3.59. Buy. HD $14.69. More purchase. options. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days.
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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 ...
