The Jerk (1979)

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Carl Reiner Director previously directed The One and Only

A somewhat naive, or perhaps dim, man has many adventures.

Quote: Navin R. Johnson

I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.

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Steve Martin Navin R. Johnson
Bernadette Peters Marie Kimble Johnson
Catlin Adams Patty Bernstein
Mabel King Mother
Richard Ward Father
Dick Anthony Williams Taj Jonson
Bill Macy Stan Fox
M. Emmet Walsh Madman
Dick O'Neill Frosty
Maurice Evans Hobart
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Name The Jerk
US Release Dec. 14, 1979
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Runtime 94
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Rating R
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    Domestic $73,691,419
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