1979
global pct
75.2
Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s
The Jerk
Scored from 134 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
75.2%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
69.0%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
92.3%
AI-adjusted percentile
134 calibrated reviewers
Summary
Navin R. Johnson, a naive white man raised by a poor Black sharecropping family in Mississippi, sets out to find his place in the world. He stumbles into an unlikely fortune after inventing a small fix for eyeglasses, and along the way falls in love with a cosmetologist named Marie while navigating fame, wealth, and his own cluelessness.
Released in 1979, The Jerk is a comedy film.
The calibrated figure is built from 134 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 136 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
Is The Jerk (1979) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 134
Cohort: Films · 1970s
