Jerk

Release Date: 1992-03-12, Rating R (Restricted),

A simpleton leaves his foster family, acquires a girlfriend and invents slip-proof eyeglasses.

Release Date: 2005-07-26, Rating R (Restricted),

Release Date: 1998-04-29, Rating R (Restricted),

That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his film-starring debut in the wacky comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the 'Opti-grab' handle for glasses - and shows why he's one of the hottest comic performers in the world.Starring: Steve Martin Bernadette Peters Jackie Mason Catlin Adams Mabel King Richard Ward Dick Anthony Williams Bill Macy M. Emmet Walsh Dick O'Neill Maurice Evans Helena Carroll Ren Wood Pepe Serna Sonny Terry Brownie McGeeDirected by: Carl Reiner

DVDs. Jerk

Comedy - general DVD - Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor family of black sharecroppers, who doesn't realize he's not black. Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is told the horrible truth when he finds himself instinctively tapping his feet to an easy listening tune on the radio, instead of a low-down blues. His mother (Mabel King) tells him he's white and Navin takes to the road (in a World war II bomber helmet and goggles) to start a new life in St. Louis. A filling station owner, Harry Hartounian (Jackie Mason), give Navin his first break, hiring him to pump gas. One day at the station, Navin has a brainstorm, concocting an invention called "The Opti-grab," a combination handle and nose-brace for eyeglasses. But Navin runs into trouble when a crazed killer (M. Emmet Walsh) picks out his name at random from the telephone book and tries to kill him. Navin escapes to a traveling carnival, where he wran