The Jerk (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 104 minuten
Alternative title: De Mafkees
Country:
United States
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Stars: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters and Catlin Adams
IMDb score:
7,1 (68.238)
Releasedate: 14 December 1979
The Jerk plot
"A rags to riches to rags story."
Navin (Martin) is a supernaive young man with a heart of gold who grows up in a black family in Mississippi. When he hears on his eighteenth birthday that he has been adopted, he decides to go out into the wide world. Soon people take advantage of his goodness, but Navin sees nothing wrong with it. By sheer coincidence, he becomes the inventor of a spectacle case, becomes filthy rich, and changes from good-natured to arrogant asshole.
Actors and actresses
Navin R. Johnson
Marie Kimble Johnson
Patty Bernstein
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Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13237 messages
- 11127 votes
Nice film in which a young man decides to go out into the world and make the best of it. Fragmentary, but entertaining. Nice silly humor that is often bland and funny at the same time. For Steve Martin, this film marked his first leading role.
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Vinokourov
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- 3143 messages
- 2909 votes
How a fool still manages to get far, that's what The Jerk is about. It is a Forrest Gump avant la lettre, but very mediocre. The jokes are of a shitty level and you can see it coming from afar. It's all very bland, but I couldn't find it really annoying because of the good-natured character of Steve Martin.
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Mescaline
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- 7095 messages
- 3259 votes
This movie had been on my list for a while, but strangely enough, I hadn't gotten around to watching it before.
Steve Martin is on a roll and the movie has a nice speed that doesn't really get boring anywhere.
Had a good laugh a few times at this slap stick like movie that crams more into 95 minutes than a similar movie in 2 hours.
Nice video to catch! 
3.5*
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