The jerk [videorecording] / Universal ; an Aspen Film Society, William E. McEuen-David V. Picker production ; a Carl Reiner film ; screenplay by Steve Martin, Carl Gottleib, Michael Elias ; story by Steve Martin & Carl Gottleib ; directed by Carl Reiner.
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Dick Anthony Williams, Bill Macy, M. Emmett Walsh, Dick O'Neill, Maurice Evans, Helena Carroll, Jackie Mason. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Special features: learn how to play "Tonight you belong to me" on the ukelele; the lost filmstrips of Father Carlos Las Vegas de Cordova.
Summary:
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
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