The Jerk

Comedy, Family

Steve Martin	Navin R. Johnson / Pig Eye Jackson / Engineer Fred
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
Jackie Mason

Director	Carl Reiner
Producer	William McEuen; David V. Picker; Peter Macgregor-Scott; William E. McEuen
Writer	Carl Gottlieb; Steve Martin

Navin (Steve Martin) is a simple and comically naive man whose world is shaken when he learns that he is adopted, and is not, in fact, black like the rest of his family. After hearing an easy listening station on the radio, he feels driven to learn more about his native culture, and sets out to find more white people, choosing St. Louis as his destination. The problem is, Navin is a complete imbecile, and one person after another take advantage of his trusting nature. He is shot at, By chance, a stupidly simple invention makes him rich and wins him the love of a beautiful woman (Bernadette Peters). This apparent happy ending is short-lived, however, as our idiot hero's life gets still more complicated.