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I bought The Jerk, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters for my husband. The movie itself is a hysterical story of a misguided man. The simplicities of the main charaters mind (Navin) and how the most contrite/mondain everyday events we take for granted are on a heightened scale for this character. Everything from having his name in the phone book to his rise to riches and fall from grace has a spin on it that makes us laugh until we cry. His love for Marie (Bernadette Peters) and how he expresses it is absolutely side splitting and Marie, being a simple person as well as uncultured lends to the story line. I'd highly recommend this movie to anyone and everyone. Our son even loves to watch it with us and he's a teenager!
I love the movie The Jerk. This movie is one of Steve Martins best early films.Nathan plays a man who was taken in by a black family as a child. He himself thinks he is black. Then Nathan decides one day to make it on his own. He is really funny as a gas attendant at a gas station. A customer came in to buy gas. He needed his glass adjusted. Nathan invented non-slip glasses. The customer promised Nathan he would give him so money for his invention. In the meanwhile, all kinds of things happen. Someone tried to shoot him at the gas station. So Nathan joined the circus. He meets someone he falls in love with and gets married. The inventor have someone contact Nathan and gave him a check for $250,000 big ones. Nathan becomes rich. Later, he has to give the money back. And becomes poor again. Its a rags to riches and poor again story. I like the musical number, Nathan and the whole family dance around in front of the house. I bought the movie because of the special edition. I would of been more happy if there were more deleted scenes shown and more extras.Read full review
"I've found my special purpose" no finer words have benn spoken since. Steve Martin at his funniest. No King Tut schelp, or arrow through the head - just the stuff that made him a force - funny gags, well worded dialog and perfect timing. He was the original and others have followed. Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell owe this guy big time. I was too young to see it at theaters when it originally ran but caught in on HBO along the way and it was and is a favorite. Reiner as a directing genius. The no-slip glasses, the funny leaking oil cans -great stuff. From a time when you had to think about jokes and the dialog, no computer generated graphics, no Dolby 7.1, no BluRay enhancements, nothing special by today's standards, but good for hardy laugh. Gotta run, a must for Martin (errr sorry folks), STEVE MARTIN, fans.Read full review
If you don't "get" tougue in cheek movies -If you didn't like Blazing Saddles or Young Frankenstien -Then by all means skip this one! Leave it for us - the small group of people who still scream, "The new phone books are here!!" and sing the Thermos song while we work! This is classic Steve Martin. No, the acting is not great and it is just as cheezy as it can be but....if you are a Connoisseur of Corn you will laugh, I promise. The main character Navin is lovable but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. You get to follow his life from being a "young kid" (at least mentally) to living in the grown up world yet never seeing anything but good in people. -- this is just for laughs!
One of Steve Martins Best Preformances Ever! As Naven Johnson, a poor black child set's out to find a use for his special purpose in life. He finds out "he really is somebody" when the new phone books come out. A (True - lol) rags to riches, to rags to laughter all the way comedy. This is a movie you really need. and this ashtray, and that all I need. and my dog, I don't need my dog. A real buy for anyone especially Iron Balls Magenti for $1.09.