A sheriff investigates the disappearance of a young girl from a small island, only to discover sinister forces at work among the island's secretive residents, including strange sexual rituals, a harvest festival and possible human sacrifice.
9 February 1970, Salford, Manchester, England, UK
11 April 1942, England, UK
29 January 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 October 1974, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
13 November 1953, Monroe, Georgia, USA
3 June 1995
9 September 1949, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
17 February 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
7 January 1964, Long Beach, California, USA
9 September 1949, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
6 August 1980, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
30 June 1972, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
7 December 1972, Oakland, California, USA
August 22, 1974 in London, England, UK
26 October 1935, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
12 December 1998, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
12 March 1968, Cupertino, California, USA
12 April 1967, Northern California, USA
February 02, 2009
If only he could have satisfied himself with this area of expertise, people would still talk of Steve Martin as one of the kings of comic cinema.
June 24, 2006
The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.
July 05, 2005
We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.
February 02, 2009
Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.
December 12, 2012
An oddball odyssey so strange, filled with non-sequiturs so funny, and decorated by a romance so sweet, it was an inevitable star-maker.
July 31, 2005
While The Jerk is an extremely episodic little movie, that's a malady easily forgiven -- simply because the episodes are so damn funny.
April 06, 2006
The whole thing is uneven and slight, but the highlight moments guilty-pleasure us with the sort of stupid-funny that's 'LOL' quotable afterward.
February 02, 2009
An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.
February 13, 2010
92 minutes of direct and sweet surrealism
