The Jerk (Blu-ray) PG-13
A rags to riches to rags story.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 27, 2019
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters | |
Performer: | Mabel King, Dick O'Neill, Jackie Mason, Maurice Evans, M. Emmet Walsh, Bill Macy, Sonny Terry, Helena Carroll, David Landsberg, Dick Anthony Williams, Pepe Serna, Brownie McGhee, Carl Gottlieb, Renn Woods, Catlin Adams & Carl Reiner | |
Directed by | Carl Reiner | |
Edited by | Ron Spang & Bud Molin | |
Screenwriting by | Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb & Michael Elias | |
Composition by | Jack Elliott | |
Story by | Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb | |
Produced by | David V. Picker & William E. McEuen | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Basically a series of skits that are barely tethered to a plot, this works better than expected, thanks primarily to Martin's infectious performance.
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Film Frenzy
The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.
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Time Out
The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.
New York Times
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.
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Maclean's Magazine
[Martin] earned leading-man status in this un-PC classic...
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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TIME Magazine
It's just a strange little movie.
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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.