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Steve Martin's funniest three films, The Jerk, The Lonely Guy, and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, are collected in the Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection with some corny bonus material that pales in comparison to Martin's stunning comedic performances. In The Lonely Guy, Martin's dejected character wanders New York streets with his fern plant searching for a lady to love. Scenes in which Martin calls his lady from his rooftop amidst scores of other lonely guys, or jogs into a diner wearing fake, spray-on sweat, seem more slapstick with each viewing. Martin's masterpiece is The Jerk, about Navin Johnson, a white guy born a "poor
Steve Martin's funniest three films, The Jerk, The Lonely Guy, and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, are collected in the Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection with some corny bonus material that pales in comparison to Martin's stunning comedic performances. In The Lonely Guy, Martin's dejected character wanders New York streets with his fern plant searching for a lady to love. Scenes in which Martin calls his lady from his rooftop amidst scores of other lonely guys, or jogs into a diner wearing fake, spray-on sweat, seem more slapstick with each viewing. Martin's masterpiece is The Jerk, about Navin Johnson, a white guy born a "poor black child," who sets out for the city to become somebody. Navin, with hobo rucksack in tow, takes his dad's three rules--Don't trust whitey, Lord loves a workin' man, and See a doctor and get rid of it--to an extreme, after becoming a millionaire from inventing a reading glasses apparatus. Co-starring Bernadette Peters, The Jerk's bizarre humor still feels fresh in its satirical examination of race and class. Watching Navin change from a poor black child, to a gas station attendant, to a millionaire, to a drunken egomaniac, to a homeless bum, illustrates Martin's sheer talent for character sketching. If this Wild and Crazy Comedy Collection is a cake, The Jerk is definitely the icing. --Trinie Dalton
One of the wackiest zaniest and most beloved comic actors of all time Steve Martin takes center stage in this hilarious collection of three of his most well-known movies: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid The Lonely Guy and The Jerk. Each film is digitally remastered for optimal laughs and this must-have collection includes such comedy greats as Bernadette Peters Charles Grodin and Carl Reiner. Find out why this "wild and crazy guy" has had America laughing in film after fantastically funny film!Dead Men Don't Wear PlaidMartin is Rigby Reardon a private eye with a nose for crime who's hot on the case of a murdered cheesemaker in this hardboiled comedy caper.The Lonely GuyA socially unsuccessful writer creates a book that turns loneliness into a love potion and life in the big city is never the same!The JerkIn this rags-to-riches-to-rags tale sweetly na ve Navin R. Johnson (Martin) decides to explore the world and finds he has a very "special purpose" along the way!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 025193353627 Manufacturer No: 61033536
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Release date: 13 February 2007
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0025193353627 UPC: 025193353627
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