The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition) R

The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 26, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 56,768
It's just a strange little movie. Full Review
rachelsreviews.net
Apr 12, 2019
Bernadette Peters...nearly steals the show from Martin's over-the-top antics. It's sweet, and funny, and includes one of the most quotable exit lines in film history. Full Review
Decider
Jun 7, 2018
92 minutes of direct and sweet surrealism Full Review
CinePassion
Feb 13, 2010
Rating: 2/4 -- We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jul 5, 2005
Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Feb 2, 2009
Carl Reiner, who has made his own contributions to comedy with Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks and Dick Van Dyke, does little to set a mood or rhythm or even an aura of good feeling that will carry audiences over the slow spots. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Jul 19, 2019
...Martin proves himself -- often hilariously -- to be nobody's fool....Funny, vulgar and backhandedly clever...
New York Times
Dec 14, 1979

Product Description:

Navin 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.

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  • Sales Rank: 16,806
  • UPC: 025192734021
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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