The Jerk

7.1

/10

1h 34m 18+Comedy Drama

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags 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.After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaph... Read more

Starring Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Carl Gottlieb, Dick Anthony Williams, Bill Macy, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick O'Neill

Watch "The Jerk" from streaming services Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 1979. It's a comedy and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.