The Jerk (1979)
Movie
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
Directed By : Carl Reiner
Genres : Comedy
Status : Released
Released : Dec 14, 1979
Tagline : A rags to riches to rags story.
Length : 94 minutes
Cast
- Steve Martin
- Bernadette Peters
- Catlin Adams
- Mabel King
- Richard Ward
- Carl Gottlieb
- Dick Anthony Williams
- Bill Macy
- M. Emmet Walsh
- Dick O'Neill
- Maurice Evans
- Helena Carroll
- Ren Woods
- Pepe Serna
- Sonny Terry
- Brownie McGhee
- Jackie Mason
- Sharon Johansen
- Gene LeBell
- Carl Reiner
- Larry Hankin
- Howard Hesseman
- Rob Reiner
- Gailard Sartain
- Lenny Montana
- William Schallert
- David Landsberg
- Domingo Ambriz
- Richard Foronjy
- Clete Roberts
- Frances E. Williams
- Lydia McGhee
- Niko Denise Holmes
- Shawn Harris
- Nyles Harris
- Susan Denise Harrison
- Douglas S. Close
- Trinidad Silva
- Alston Ahern
- Lawrence Green
- Ken Magee
- Tom J. Delaney
- Alfred Dennis
- Marc Loge
- Jon Leichter
- Lillian Adams
- Joe Lynn
- Maurice Marsac
- Fred Lerner
- Jerry G. Velasco
- Kimberly Cameron
- Elizabeth Macey
- Richie Reiner
- Daniel Trevor
- Benjie Bancroft
Crew
- Screenplay : Carl Gottlieb
- Original Music Composer : Jack Elliott
- Editor : Bud Molin
- Director : Carl Reiner
- Screenplay : Steve Martin
- Stunts : Diane Peterson
- Costume Supervisor : April Ferry
- Stunt Coordinator : Conrad E. Palmisano
- Stunts : Debbie Evans
- Associate Producer : Peter Macgregor-Scott
- Screenplay : Michael Elias
- Editor : Ron Spang
- Set Decoration : Richard C. Goddard
- Casting : Geno Havens
- Producer : David V. Picker
- Costume Design : Theadora Van Runkle
- Director of Photography : Victor J. Kemper
- Production Design : Jack T. Collis
- Producer : William E. McEuen
- Casting : Penny Perry
- Stunts : Jeannie Epper