The Jerk R

A rags to riches to rags story.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 9, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 56,768
Rating: 4.5/5 -- An oddball odyssey so strange, filled with non-sequiturs so funny, and decorated by a romance so sweet, it was an inevitable star-maker. Full Review
Quickflix
Dec 12, 2012
...Martin proves himself -- often hilariously -- to be nobody's fool....Funny, vulgar and backhandedly clever...
New York Times
Dec 14, 1979
...Martin's first major lead is a wonderfully excessive line-up of physical gags and puerile, sitcom-style set-pieces...
Total Film
Mar 1, 2001
The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Feb 2, 2009
It's just a strange little movie. Full Review
rachelsreviews.net
Apr 12, 2019
Bernadette Peters...nearly steals the show from Martin's over-the-top antics. It's sweet, and funny, and includes one of the most quotable exit lines in film history. Full Review
Decider
Jun 7, 2018

Product Description:

Navin Johnson, a none-too-bright white boy raised by a family of black sharecroppers, somehow manages to reach adulthood without ever discovering he was adopted. His parents finally tell him the truth on his birthday and, shocked by the news, he decides to head off to the big city to seek his fortune. Although he embarks on his odyssey with Candide-like optimism, Navin soon learns the cruel ways of the world as his crazy invention--a device to stop one's glasses from sliding--leads him from rags to riches and back to rags. Steve Martin is riotous in this no-holds-barred broad slapstick comedy, with Bernadette Peters playing his accepting love interest. Jackie Mason, M. Emmet Walsh, and Bill Macy are excellent in small roles, but the focus is always on Martin, who is at his goofy best in a film loaded with hysterical sight gags and a dog whose name cannot be said on television.

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  • UPC: 025192184161
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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