The Jerk (26th Anniversary Edition) |  | Actors: Catlin Adams, Domingo Ambriz, Helena Carroll, Maurice Evans, Richard Foronjy
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  153 reviews
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 025192734021
ISBN: 1417045655
UPC: 025192734021
EAN: 9781417045655
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1979
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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.
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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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 Its all I need November 17, 2009
Jarlaxle (Marietta, Ga)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
That's all I need is this video. That's all I need, is this video and these phone books, that's all I need.
DVD- The Jerk October 25, 2009
J. Seward (Akron, OH United States)
I had the tape - and wanted a more permanent copy!
Love it !
My story? I was born a poor HD DVD..... August 9, 2009
Marla Symes (Sioux Falls, SD, USA)
Huh? I am not a bum. I'm a jerk. I once had wealth, power, and the love of a beautiful woman. Now I only have two things: my friends and... uh... my thermos. Huh? My story? Okay. It was never easy for me. I was born a poor HD DVD.....
The HD DVD version of The Jerk is a good update over the DVD since it's widescreen and has a better than average soundtrack of Dolby Digital-Plus 5.1, but really my only complaint is there were only 4 really sucky special features which were all in standard def. So, that's why it only got 4 stars.
Otherwise I watched it for all the comedy, and trust me you will not be disappointed unless you are so unhumorous like my grandma.
The Bottom Line - If you want to have a good laugh get this movie!
 Was this ever funny? June 22, 2009
R. Martinez (Phoenix, AZ)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I hadn't seen this since my early teens; the year that it was released 30 years ago. I suppose that I hadn't thought to watch it again since then. But, I now know why: I rented it earlier this week with my 15 yr. old son, as we were trying to pick out a flick that might entertain. My pick, my fault: this movie is so over abundantly unfunny that I felt like I had betrayed my son. Thank gawd he's a gracious human being.
Was this movie's humor really legitimate at some time; is it still? Was it necessary to release a 26th anniversary edition? Or, was that out of the studio's feeling of some "loyal obligation"? Seriously, Fans: watch it at least everyday for a couple of weeks and then honestly ask yourself whether this comedy wasn't taking advantage the movie viewing public during Steve Martin's hey-days, rather than putting out legitimate comedy. I can't remember a time that his movies ever caused me to laugh. I have a vague memory that `Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' may have... but, I don't wanna chance it. He was great in 'The Spanish Prisoner', however, which is a thriller/drama. Check that one out instead.
Never Got It April 22, 2009
Laquan Conic
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
. . i ordered this movie over a month ago and still never recieved it. .
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