The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film. Directed by Carl Reiner, the film was written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias. This was Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film. The film also features Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh and Jackie Mason. The film begins with Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin), a homeless bum, directly addressing the camera and telling his story. He is the adopted white son of African American...
Navin walks back and forth excitedly with the phone book. He stops and looks ...
Madman stops chasing Navin at the gate because the sign reads 'Carnival Perso...
Navin has yet to figure out that Madman the sniper is shooting at him.
As Navin narrates we see the old small shanty replaced by a new big shanty.
Navin climbs into the back of the station wagon and the family heads for home.
Navin hands Marie a thermos. She steps up to him then stops, backs up and hol...
Mother tells Navin he's going to come back home and live with them. Navin can...
We return to the side of the theater where the movie begain. A voice calls ou...
As Navin walks away from the house with his pants down around his ankles and ...
Marie sits on the floor crying while Navin drunk, exits with an arm full of s...
Marie sits on the floor crying while Navin drunk, prepares to leave. He gets ...
Marie sits on the floor crying while Navin drunk, prepares to leave...
Marie sits on the floor crying while Navin, drunk, prepares to leave...
Marie sits on the floor crying while Navin's drunk. She prepares to leave.
Navin tells Marie that there are plenty of places he can go where people beli...
Navin's drunk and Marie is distraught because of the way Navin's changed.
Having lost the class action suit Navin writes checks to the recipients. Mari...
After the news show airs, everyone exits Navin's disco. Marie sits on the flo...
Reiner shows a clip of a car going over an embankment, tumbling down a hill a...
Dining in an upscale restaurant Navin gets upset when they serve escargot.
Dining in an upscale restaurant Navin tells the waiter not to bring any more ...
Dining in an upscale restaurant Navin tells Marie about how his fight ended w...
Navin walks the grounds with some mob types talking about investing in proper...
Navin walks the grounds with some mob types talking about investing in property.
Navin watches an 8mm film as three cats are juggled.
Hobart stops on his way out of Navin's office.
Navin puts Mask O Derm on his face and takes a seat in Marie's chair. She pee...
Navin thinks he has a check for two hundred fifty dollars, it's actually for ...
Madman finally catches up to Navin and hands him an envelope and a receipt to...
Navin looks out the window and sees Madman coming. When he tells Shithead to ...
Mother reads Navin's letter aloud while the rest of the family listens in hor...
Navin walks along dragging Shithead along by the leash. We hear him narrating...
While Navin sings in the tub, Marie writes a note and slips it under the bath...
Navin continues to talk to Marie while she sleeps.
Navin is in the bed beside Marie, who looks as if she's dead.
Marie tells Navin that she can't fall in love with him because of her mother'...
Marie fights off Navin's advance on the beach then confesses the fact that sh...
Sitting on the beach with Marie Navin tells her his thoughts of getting throu...
Patty punches Navin in the gut causing him to double up. When she turns to Ma...
When Patty rides up interrupting Navin's date with Marie, Navin does his best...
Patty rides her bike up and into Navin's place, in the middle of his date wit...
Sitting in Navin's box van, Marie looks at Navin with dreamy eyes. He looks a...
Navin squeezes Marie's cheeks after complementing her skin.
After Patty rips the flowers off their stems and knocks Navin off his feet, N...
Patty punches Navin and flips him to the ground. She pulls a switch blade on ...
Because he's tongue tied Marie helps Navin out. He stomps his foot twice.
After catching up to the little boy in Marie's train that's stolen his change...
Navin and Patty can be heard as they talk on the ferris wheel.
Navin and Patty can be heard as they talk on the ferris wheel.
Apparently Taj is the only member of the family who knows what the blow job t...
The older members of the family sit on the porch at home in Mississippi readi...
The older members of the family sit on the porch at home in Mississippi readi...
The older members of the family sit on the porch at home in Mississippi readi...
Patty throws Navin on the bed and snatches his belt off. We move to the exter...
As Patty fondles Navin's buttocks he apparently begins to get an erection. Ap...
As Patty fondles Navin's buttocks he apparently begins to get an erection.
Navin puts his arms up. Patty walks up to him, reaches around him and grabs o...
Navin holds up his half eaten corn dog. Patty snatches it from him and tosses...
In Patty's trailer Navin looks around at the disarray and the garbage that's ...
Patty tells Navin to get on the back of the bike and takes off. Frosty yells ...
Patty rides up and around Navin on her motorbike then demands a bite of the c...
Reassured by Frosty that he's doing fine as a guesser, Navin goes back to wor...
Frosty walks up to Navin's booth after a potential customer blows him off.
Navin stands in his booth and calls to the folks passing by.
Navin calls out from his Carney booth, dressed in top hat and cape.
Navin sends money home in a letter from his new job as a weight guesser at a ...
Navin escapes the mad sniper by jumping on a circus truck. He tells his mothe...
Harry yells to Navin as he runs around the station trying to stay away from c...
The sniper fires a few more times. Still unable to hit Navin he plugs a few m...
The mad sniper is shooting at Navin, missing and hitting the oil cans in the ...
The mad sniper is shooting at Navin, missing and hitting the oil cans in the ...
Navin adds a nose brake to Fox's glasses that prevents them from sliding off ...
Stan Fox, a customer at the gas station, has glasses that keep sliding off hi...
Navin opens the new phone book to his name. He walks back and forth excitedly...
Navin marches around the room tapping his foot and snapping his finger in gra...
Navin runs to the delivery truck that's bringing the new phone books and take...
A lowrider pulls into the station. The driver shows off his hydraulics.
So with that statement Harry leaves Navin alone at the service station.
Navin, who hasn't got a clue as to what Harry is talking about, mimics Harry'...
Harry's wife shakes her head in agreement as she turns to get back into the car.
Harry has his wife step out of the car. He introduces Navin to her.
Navin has to think for a minute on the 'terms' of the agreement before he rea...
Harry shows Nevin the storage room that he is letting Nevin use as a bedroom.
Father reads the letter Navin's sent and takes the money he sent from the env...
Navin's voice is heard as Father reads the letter he sent and takes the money...
While Navin's in the bathroom Harry offers him a job.
In order to use the bathroom at a service station Nevin says he's a paying cu...
After the fire department arrives and announces a false alarm one of the mote...
A dog wakes Navin by barking at the door of the motel he's staying at. After ...
Father, listening from inside the house at the conversation between Navin and...
When Navin calls back that a truck is coming down the road, Mother looks up f...
Hours after they've said good bye, and at the dinner table, mother expresses ...
Navin stands by the gate and recites as the family walks back to the house, d...
Mother walks back toward the house. Taj is the last to give Navin words to li...
Father chases everyone back to the house leaving mother and Taj with Navin at...
Navin hugs and kisses everyone, he picks Pierre up and hugs him.
At the fence, packed to go, Mother gives Navin words to live by. Father does ...
Father prepares Navin to go out on his own by teaching him a few things he sh...
Navin snaps his finger and taps his foot in time with the music... Dad waits ...
Navin, hearing music he can relate to for the first time, wakes up the entire...
Mother hugs and encourages Navin despite the fact that he's moving his arm an...
Taj enters the room while mother is comforting Navin. He has Navin's sandwich...
Mother follows Navin into the bedroom to comfort him when he gets emotional a...
After mother tells Navin he is not her natural born child, she gives him a bi...
After receiving gifts from everyone at the table, Navin stands up and runs ou...
As Navin talks the scene changes to an old shanty with several black folk on ...
The camera moves in on Navin. He takes a swig from the bottle he has in a bro...
The movie opens. We see three men who appear to be bums sitting on the side o...
The movie opens. We see three men who appear to be bums sitting on the side o...
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