Summary
Steve Martin portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer and becomes a millionaire by inventing the ⿿Opti-grab⿿ handle for glasses. It's an outrageous comedy with one laugh after another!
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Inventors
-- Drama.
Adoptees -- Drama. Wealth -- Drama. Feature films. Comedy films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Publisher | Universal City, CA :Universal,2005 |
| Edition | 26th anniversary edition, Widescreen. |
| Contributors |
Reiner, Carl,
1922-2020 film director. Picker, David V., film producer. McEuen, William E., film producer. Martin, Steve, 1945- screenwriter, actor. Gottlieb, Carl, screenwriter. Elias, Michael, screenwriter. Peters, Bernadette, actor. Adams, Catlin, actor. Mason, Jackie, actor. Universal Pictures (Firm), production company, film distributor. Aspen Film Society, production company. |
| Participants/Performers |
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Jackie Mason. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R. |
| Language |
English French Spanish In English, French or Spanish; with optional Spanish or French subtitles; English captions. |
| Notes |
Title from container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Bonus features: "Tonight you belong to me" --learn how to play this classic tune on the ukelele; The lost filmstrips of Father Carlos Las Vegas de Cordova. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; dual layer; Dolby Digital 5.1 (English); Dolby Digital 2.0 mono (French and Spanish). |
| Description |
1 videodisc (1 hr., 34 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN | 1417045655 9781417045655 |
| Other | Classic View |