Named by the American Film Institute among the funniest movies ever made, THE JERK (1979) marked the feature film breakout for AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Steve Martin – already a comedy superstar, but whose performance as naïf Navin Johnson made him a somebody with the kind of “spontaneous publicity” that one achieves from getting one’s name printed in the phone book.
Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about THE JERK.
