Movie

The Jerk

A rags to riches to rags story.

1979★ 6.9 · 9191h 34mComedy

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.

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Cast

Rob Reiner
as Truck Driver Picking Up Navin (uncredited)

Steve Martin
as Navin R. Johnson

Bernadette Peters
as Marie Kimble Johnson

M. Emmet Walsh
as Madman

Larry Hankin
as Circus Hand (uncredited)

William Schallert
as Judge M.A. Loring

Pepe Serna
as Punk #1

Ken Magee
as Carnival Rube

Carl Gottlieb
as Iron Balls McGinty

Howard Hesseman
as Carnival Worker (uncredited)

Carl Reiner
as Carl Reiner the Celebrity

Maurice Evans
as Hobart

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6.9/ 10

919 TMDB votes

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Release date: 1979-12-14

Budget: $4,000,000

Revenue: $100,000,000

Runtime: 1h 34m

Genres

Comedy

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