The Jerk
A rags to riches to rags story.
19791h 34mNo ratings yet
- Comedy
Overview
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.
Keywords
- phone book
- sharecropper
- blow
- neominstrelsy
- tennis court
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 14, 1979
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Aspen Film Society
- Cast
- Steve Martin,Bernadette Peters,Catlin Adams,Mabel King,Richard Ward,Carl Gottlieb,Dick Anthony Williams,Bill Macy,M. Emmet Walsh,Dick O'Neilland 45 more
- Director
- Carl Reiner
- Producer
- David V. Picker,William E. McEuen
- Cinematography
- Victor J. Kemper
- Music
- Jack Elliott
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Revenue
- $100,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0079367