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Summary: "The New Phone Book Is Here!!, The New Phone Books Is Here!"
Review: This 1979 debut for Steve Martin is one of comedy's greatest classics. This film definitley opened the door for people like Jim Carrey and all those types of comedies. This one will forever be the granddaddy of them all. Steve plays Navin Johnson, a white man who was brought up by a backwoods family who are black. Navin realizes he's not and sets out on his own to find his own life. It's one misadventure after the next. It's also one hilarious joke after another. Along the way he meets and falls in love with Bernadette Peters. There are also appearences by Carl Reiner, Jackie Mason, and M. Emmett Walsh. The movie is so slapsticky silly that it's hilarious fun to watch from beginning to end. I won't say what happens to our good old friend Navin. You'll have to see for yourself. If only the brilliant Steve Martin would return to this type of comedy. This film is pure comedy gold sent from comedy heaven. A definite must!!.
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Summary: A Classic Favorite
Review: This is one of my favorite Steve Martin movies. He and Bernadette Peters are hilarious. If you want a good laugh, this is it! All I need is this movie, and this lamp and this chair, and this thermos....and that's all.
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Summary: Steve Martin is now my favorite
Review: I looveed this movie..i just saw it for the first time the other day and it made me laugh soooo hard soooo long. I have a new found appriciation for steve martin now..he's comic genius if you ask me. His performance was soo good in this movie. And Bernadette Peters was great too. I recommend this to anyone who loves to laugh.
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Summary: A movie about me
Review: I can really associate with this movie, afterall I am a JERK. All my freinds seem to think that I am a JERK. I recently opened a JERK store, and its completely stocked with me.
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Summary: The Best of Steve Martin
Review: Steve Martin and Carl Reiner team up for the best movie ever of Martins. It is about a lone person who goes to work with a gas station attendent played by jewish comedian Jackie Mason. It has a lot of laughs.
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Summary: Steve Martin at His Best
Review: I probably can't count how many times I've seen this film, although I'd been away from it for a while before watching it recently. I was surprised to find that unlike many other very funny movies, THE JERK was actually much funnier than I'd remembered.Watching Martin's comedic acting in this rags-to-riches-to-rags tale, one can't help but come to the understanding that this performance is a stroke of genius. The writing is sound, the gags still work, and Bernadette Peters is luminously funny as Martin's love interest. The DVD rates only 4 stars, however, because it's sadly lacking in features. I've rented or borrowed this one twice, but I don't plan to buy it until a better, more feature-packed edition is released. Although the trailer is fun to watch, I'd much rather have outtakes, commentary, and interviews to go along with what may be Steve Martin's most classic film.
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Summary: Hysterically funny!
Review: This movie was absolutely hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing through the whole thing. Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters are wonderful. The dog, Stupid, is adorable and looks just like Benji. There are SO many great lines from this...my personal favorite part is when he's lying in bed going on and on, explaining to her mathematically how he decided how long it seemed like they had known each other. (The first week felt like two weeks, the next one felt like five days...then that one day you went to visit your mother, that felt like just one day, but the day after that felt like two days spilling over into the next one, and the next two days each felt like two and a half, making a total of five days...) It's great when he gives her the dead flowers, too, and she goes, "What were they?" Then he says, "Oh, they put daisy stems on my roses!" And in the beginning he's describing a car full of bad guys that he attached to a church where people were celebrating and that was being driven away...he says, "It's a blue chevy, going south, and it's dragging a small church..." Oh well, I won't give away any other lines...there're just too many. But this movie is very, very, very good and highly recommended. The story is the kind that Steve Martin is so good at-the kind where everything goes wrong for the main character and he does stupid things ("I'll guess you're height, weight, or sex for a dollar!"), and goes crazy a lot. He starts out with a job at a gas station raising money for his poor family. He then is chased away by a man with a machine gun and joins a traveling carnival, where he saves a kid that Marie (Bernadette Peters) is baby-sitting. The story unfolds as they eventually get married, he gets sued because he invents something that leaves people cross-eyed, and loses all his money. In the end, his family meets a man who bails them out of trouble, fights to get their money back, and they all build a bigger house to live in together. It's wonderful, and you would never regret buying it.
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Summary: Great Movie....Lackluster DVD
Review: Why did they bother to release a new version of the DVD and STILL not include the deleted scenes from the television version. I want to see Navin sick after riding the Tilt-A-Whirl 87 times! I want to see the pilot plead for a donation from Navin to get his airplane seats repaired so his passengers won't have to sit on towels.....sniff Don't get me wrong....It is A GREAT movie....definitely an all-time comedy classic and a good quality DVD but no extras! That's all I want....
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Summary: Steve Martins trademark movie.
Review: I love this movie and who does not. Nathan R Johnson is finally finding out that he needs to be somebody and sets out on a hilarious expedition. Along the way he thinks a guy is trying to kill him, he meets up with a sexy but mean motorcyclist then a very sweet chick and then he happens to send his poor black family at least 35 cents a week the whole thing is a big joke but impossible to love.
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Summary: Mind you, I was very, very drunk..
Review: Twelve (or so) years ago I staggered back from the Tufnell Park Tavern in London, flopped down in front of the TV and The Jerk was on. I laughed, and laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Mind you, I was very, very drunk..
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