The Jerk
19791h 34m6.9
Comedy
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genre
- Comedy
- Certificate
- R
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Revenue
- $100,000,000
- Origin
- United States of America
About
A rags to riches to rags story.
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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Details
- Director
- Carl Reiner
- Writing
- Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Dec 14, 1979
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $100M
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
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
Ren Woods
Elvira
Pepe Serna
Punk #1
Sonny Terry
Blues Singer
Brownie McGhee
Blues Singer
Jackie Mason
Harry Hartounian
Sharon Johansen
Lenore Hartounian
Gene LeBell
Con Man
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner the Celebrity
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