The Jerk
The Jerk
Comedy

The Jerk

A rags to riches to rags story.

6.9(911 votes)·1979 94m·EN· United States of America

Directed by Carl Reiner

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.

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6.9/10

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Director

Carl Reiner

Studios

Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society

Budget

$4.0M

Revenue

$100.0M

Cast

Steve Martin

Navin R. Johnson

Bernadette Peters

Marie Kimble Johnson

Catlin Adams

Patty Bernstein

Mabel King

Mother

Richard Ward

Father

Carl Gottlieb

Iron Balls McGinty

Dick Anthony Williams

Taj

Bill Macy

Stan Fox

M. Emmet Walsh

Madman

Dick O'Neill

Frosty

Maurice Evans

Hobart

Helena Carroll

Hester

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