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The Jerk

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Carl Reiner directs Steve Martin (who co-wrote the script with Carl Gottlieb) in this gag-laden comedy about an idiotic white man, raised by a poor family of black sharecroppers, who doesn't realize he's not black. Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is told the horrible truth when he finds himself instinctively tapping his feet to an easy listening tune on the radio, instead of a low-down blues. His mother (Mabel King) tells him he's white and Navin takes to the road (in a World War II bomber helmet and...more

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The Greatest Jerk There Ever Was... by Reesuh
Steve Martin plays Navin Johnson, a white man who was raised by a loving - but dirt poor - black family. Navin gets along well with his family but he doesn't...

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