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6.9After 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.
Released: 1979-12-1494 minDir: Carl ReinerComedyBudget: $4.0MBox office: $100MPart of: The Jerk Collection
Cast
- Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson
- Bernadette Peters as Marie Kimble Johnson
- Catlin Adams as Patty Bernstein
- Mabel King as Mother
- Richard Ward as Father
- Carl Gottlieb as Iron Balls McGinty
Themes
- blow
- neominstrelsy
- phone book
- sharecropper
- tennis court
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Carl Reiner
- Screenwriter
- Carl Gottlieb
- Cast member
- Lenny Montana
- Composer
- Jack Elliott
- Production company
- Universal Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Victor J. Kemper
- Narrative location
- Mississippi
- Duration
- 94
- FilmAffinity ID
- 239164
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1980-06-20
- title
- The Jerk
- distributed by
- Netflix
- different from
- Jerk
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 61/100
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