Jerk, The  /  DVD-Video
Standard 1.33:1 Color  /  Production Year: 1979  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 1 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 3.63 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis A RAGS TO RICHES TO RAGS STORY That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin, makes his film debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by deranged killer, becomes a millionaire by inventing the "Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses--and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Steve Martin  • Bernadette Peters  • Jackie Mason  • Mabel King  • Catlin Adams Writers:  • Steve Martin  • Carl Gottlieb  • Michael Elias Producers:  • David V. Picker  • William McEuen Directors:  • Carl Reiner Product Information Features: Interactive Menus Production Notes Talent Bios Film Highlights Theatrical Trailer Video: Standard 1.33:1 Color Audio: (more info) ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC] FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: Spanish Studio: Universal Studios Production Year: 1979 Release Date: 4/28/1998 Length: 94 mins Rating: R Chapters: 16 Packaging: Snap Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: 61020214 UPC Code: 025192021428 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: AFI Top 100, Classics, Comedy Bargains: Under $15 Studios: Universal Studios Customers who bought this Title also bought Roxanne  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 3.63 out of 5, including 2 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review dummer and dummest! - 3.75 out of 5  (8/22/2000) "Okay, It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sitting on the porch with my family, singing and dancing, down in Mississippi." Thus begins the tale of Navin Johnson, a poor young man destined for greater things in the world. We watch this man as he goes on to those greater things and then back down to the rags from whence he came,and we laugh our asses off all the way! "The Jerk" was the first starring role for Steve Martin and he showed much of his   more >> Customer Review Steve Martin's Best - 3.5 out of 5  (10/29/1998) This is a great movie. The DVD is not ideal, though, because it is pan and scan ONLY. That's really sad. There are the standard features (trailer, bios) and the picture is sharp. C'mon, studios, let's stop with the P&S comedies. Original aspect ratio rules!   more >>