Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?) brought comic Steve Martin to the screen in this mostly funny 1979 movie about a relentlessly stupid but innocent man, whom we get to know from childhood (where it never occurred to him that he was white as he was raised by a family of black sharecroppers) to romance (where he doesn't quite know what to do with Bernadette Peters). Martin is game as the moron, and this is the kind of film with funny moments people still talk about. --Tom Keogh

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upc:	0025192734021
title:	The Jerk
theatricalDate:	14-12-1979
stars:	Steve Martin Bernadette Peters Catlin Adams Domingo Ambriz Helena Carroll Maurice Evans Richard Foronjy Mabel King David Landsberg Bill Macy Jackie Mason Brownie McGhee Dick O'Neill Pepe Serna Sonny Terry M. Emmet Walsh Richard Ward Dick Anthony Williams Ren Woods
purchase date:	07-09-2006
publisher:	Universal Studios
published:	26-07-2005
price:	$14.98
net Rating:	4
MPAA Rating:	R
minutes:	94
last lookup time:	179361712
genre:	Fish Out of Water Rags to Riches Steve Martin Comedy
fullTitle:	The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition)
features:	AC-3 Color Dolby Dubbed Subtitled Widescreen NTSC 1.85:1
edition:	26th Anniversary
currentValue:	$7.97
created:	179361712
country:	us
aspect:	DVD
asin:	B0009IOR5M