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The Jerk

Rating:R
Genre:Comedy
Release Date:January 1, 1979
Cast:Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Mabel King, Catlin Adams
Director:Carl Reiner
Producer:William E. McEuen, David V. Picker
Writer:Carl Gottlieb
Distributor:Universal Pictures

Description: Navin Johnson, an idiotic white man, who has been raised by a poor black family, doesn't realize that he's white, until one day his mother finally tells him. Distraught by the bombshell, he ventures out on his own to start a new life.

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