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The Jerk

A rags to riches to rags story.

1979 · R · 1h 34m

Directed by Carl Reiner

6.9

TMDB audience score
946 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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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