A rags to riches to rags story.
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
$4,000,000
$100,000,000
December 14, 1979
Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society
55 people
Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson
Acting
Bernadette Peters
Marie Kimble Johnson
Acting
Catlin Adams
Patty Bernstein
Acting
Mabel King
Mother
Acting
Richard Ward
Father
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Carl Gottlieb
Iron Balls McGinty
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Dick Anthony Williams
Taj
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Bill Macy
Stan Fox
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M. Emmet Walsh
Madman
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Dick O'Neill
Frosty
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Maurice Evans
Hobart
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Helena Carroll
Hester
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