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Product Information

The adopted son of a poor black family creates crazy inventions which lead him from rags to riches to rags.

Product Identifiers

EAN5050582952285

eBay Product ID (ePID)22048557771

Product Key Features

ActorJackie Mason, Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams

Film/TV TitleThe Jerk

DirectorCarl Reiner

LanguageEnglish

Run Time95 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2013

FormatBlu-ray

FeaturesWidescreen

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Additional InformationNavin Johnson, a none-too-bright white boy raised by a family of black sharecroppers, somehow manages to reach adulthood without ever discovering he was adopted. His parents finally tell him the truth on his birthday and, shocked by the news, he decides to head off to the big city to seek his fortune. Although he embarks on his odyssey with Candide-like optimism, Navin soon learns the cruel ways of the world as his crazy invention--a device to stop one's glasses from sliding--leads him from rags to riches and back to rags. Steve Martin is riotous in this no-holds-barred broad slapstick comedy, with Bernadette Peters playing his accepting love interest. Jackie Mason, M. Emmet Walsh, and Bill Macy are excellent in small roles, but the focus is always on Martin, who is at his goofy best in a film loaded with hysterical sight gags and a dog whose name cannot be said on television.

Reviewswww.dvdtalk.com - If you dig the old-fashioned Steve Martin, this is a classic comedy of the highest caliber.

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Jerk

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