Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson/Cat Juggler/Pig Eye Jackson/Engineer Fred
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Dec 14, 1979 · A simpleminded country boy (Steve Martin) leaves his adoptive black family and embarks on a series of misadventures in the big city. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and discover trivia and goofs of this hilarious film.
- (65K)
- Comedy
- Carl Reiner
- 1979-12-14
The Jerk. 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 Martin and 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.
The Jerk. 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 ...
- (44)
- Carl Reiner
- R
- Steve Martin
The Jerk is 5040 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 2132 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than The Last Five Years but less popular than Fabian: Going to the Dogs.
- Carl Reiner
- R
- 26
Dec 5, 2014 · The Jerk (1979) SYNOPSIS: Navin (Steve Martin) believes he was born a poor black child in Mississippi. He is, however, actually white. Upon figuring this out...
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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 him rich, but also gets him into trouble, and he loses everything and his wife.
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The Jerk. An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis. 7,885 IMDb 7.1 1 h 34 min 1979. X-Ray R.
