Year:1979
Director:Carl Reiner
Written by:Steve Martin (Screenplay), Carl Gottlieb (Screenplay)
Script Synopsis:After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags 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.
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- The Jerk Script PDF - 1/26/1979 at Script City ($)
- The Jerk Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
- The Jerk Transcript at Script-O-Rama
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- The Jerk ( tt0079367 ) at IMDb
- The Jerk ( 6471 ) at TheMovieDB.org