REVIEW: The Jerk [1979]

“I was born a poor black child” It was sheer dumb luck that while reading Steve Martin’s autobiography earlier this year I saw his film The Jerk was being shown on tv. A few months later and the threat of my DVR being erased, I finally took the time to view it. Martin definitely did something special, infusing his stand-up routine into a story of one man’s rise to wealth and subsequent loss of everything. His crazy persona takes center stage right from the start as we meet Navin Johnson,…

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