Film
The Jerk
Wed, Sep 5, 2012
- 6:50PM
- 9:15PM
LOCATION:
BAM Rose Cinemas
RUN TIME: 99min
RATED: R
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $12
MEMBERS: $7
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
Students: $9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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September 2012
Wednesday September 05, 2012
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2012
series American Gagsters: Great Comedy Teams
Directed by Carl Reiner | 1979
With Steve Martin,Bernadette Peters,M. Emmet Walsh,Mabel King,Catlin Adams
In his first major film role following a successful career in stand-up, Steve Martin plays Navin, an idiotic, rhythmically challenged white man who was adopted as an infant by a family of black sharecroppers. Upon discovering he can follow the beat of a Lawrence Welk song, Navin has a moment of revelation and decides to head to St. Louis, where he comes into his fortune with a new eyewear invention and falls in love with a cosmetologist (Peters, in one of her best screen roles). The Jerk is “such a soaring hymn to stupidity…that only the sanest souls could resist the temptation to join in with the chorus” (Time Out London).
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