The Jerk (1979)
Directed by Carl Reiner
A naïve man raised by a sharecropping family in Mississippi heads north to St. Louis, joins a travelling carnival and gets rich and broke again in Los Angeles.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Family's shack≈ 00:02:00MississippiStated on screen
On his birthday Navin learns he was adopted and sets out to find the city where a radio song came from.
- 2Gas station≈ 00:15:00St. Louis, MissouriStated on screen
In St. Louis he pumps gas, invents a handle for glasses and becomes a random target for a sniper.
- 3Travelling carnival≈ 00:35:00MissouriInferred
Fleeing the gunman, he works at a carnival and falls for Marie.
- 4Navin's mansion≈ 01:00:00Los Angeles, CaliforniaStated on screen
- 5Skid row≈ 01:25:00Los Angeles, CaliforniaInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 3,213 km
- Places
- 4
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 5
- Not shown: 2,552 km
- Truck: 661 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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