The Jerk (1979)
"A rags to riches to rags story."
Critics Score
🎬 72%
(RT: 82%, MC: 61) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Catlin Adams as Patty Bernstein
Mabel King as Mother
Richard Ward as Father
Carl Gottlieb as Iron Balls McGinty
Bill Macy as Stan Fox
Is The Jerk good?
Most people think so. 83% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 72%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back 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. Wikipedia ↗
