The Jerk 1979 Watch Free in HD

Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a fortune.

Genre:

Comedy

Actors:

Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Dick Anthony Williams, Bill Macy, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick ONeill, Maurice Evans, Helena Carroll, ...»

Director:

Carl Reiner

Country:

United States

Release:

1979

IMDb:

7.1

Quality:

Duration:

94 min

Time Out

The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.

June 24, 2006

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DVDTalk.com

While The Jerk is an extremely episodic little movie, that's a malady easily forgiven -- simply because the episodes are so damn funny.

July 31, 2005

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CinePassion

92 minutes of direct and sweet surrealism

February 13, 2010

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Variety

An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.

February 02, 2009

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ColeSmithey.com

Steve Martin is at the height of his comic powers in this very un-PC comedy.

January 25, 2006

Quickflix

An oddball odyssey so strange, filled with non-sequiturs so funny, and decorated by a romance so sweet, it was an inevitable star-maker.

December 12, 2012

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DVDJournal.com

The whole thing is uneven and slight, but the highlight moments guilty-pleasure us with the sort of stupid-funny that's 'LOL' quotable afterward.

April 06, 2006

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Chicago Sun-Times

We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.

July 05, 2005

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New York Times

The laughs aren't steady, but they're persistent, and the film moves fast enough to compensate for its unevenness.

May 09, 2005

Filmcritic.com

Martin's one-liners are pretty funny, very dry, and awfully quotable.

February 06, 2005

Film4

If only he could have satisfied himself with this area of expertise, people would still talk of Steve Martin as one of the kings of comic cinema.

February 02, 2009

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TIME Magazine

Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.

February 02, 2009

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