The Jerk (Blu-ray) R
A rags to riches to rags story.
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The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition)
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The Jerk (40th Anniversary) (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 10, 2016
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters | |
Performer: | Mabel King, Dick O'Neill, Jackie Mason, Maurice Evans, M. Emmet Walsh, Bill Macy, Sonny Terry, Helena Carroll, David Landsberg, Dick Anthony Williams, Pepe Serna, Brownie McGhee, Carl Gottlieb, Renn Woods, Catlin Adams & Carl Reiner | |
Directed by | Carl Reiner | |
Edited by | Ron Spang & Bud Molin | |
Screenwriting by | Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb & Michael Elias | |
Composition by | Jack Elliott | |
Story by | Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb | |
Produced by | David V. Picker & William E. McEuen | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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TIME Magazine
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.
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Decider
It's just a strange little movie.
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rachelsreviews.net
[Martin] earned leading-man status in this un-PC classic...
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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Quickflix
Rating: 2/4 --
We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.
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Chicago Sun-Times
[The film] uses many of the bits Martin was doing in his standup act at the time.
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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.