The Jerk

“A rags to riches to rags story.”

Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) is a good-hearted, wide-eyed innocent who has never doubted that he belongs in his adoptive family's Mississippi household. When he finally learns the truth, he packs up and leaves, sure that the world has a place waiting for him. Carl Reiner follows him from one job to the next, and the one person who keeps turning up beside him is Marie (Bernadette Peters).