The Jerk (Blu-ray) PG-13

A rags to riches to rags story.
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: August 27, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 56,768
Rating: 3/4 -- Basically a series of skits that are barely tethered to a plot, this works better than expected, thanks primarily to Martin's infectious performance. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Dec 22, 2018
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
The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.
New York Times
May 9, 2005
Carl Reiner, who has made his own contributions to comedy with Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke, does little to set a mood or rhythm or even an aura of good feeling that will carry audiences over the slow spots. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Jul 19, 2019
[Martin] earned leading-man status in this un-PC classic...
Entertainment Weekly
Jul 29, 2005
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

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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  • Sales Rank: 114,680
  • UPC: 191329108321
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