More movies should have a part where the director shows up as himself and sues the main character
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.
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More movies should have a part where the director shows up as himself and sues the main character
“How did you find me?”“I don’t know. This was the first place we looked.”So fucking great. Pissed it took me this long and a comic legend’s death to watch it, I always mentally filed this under “broad 80s comedies that would’ve been funny as a child but probably aren’t as good now.” The only thing that “isn’t as good now” is some iffy race stuff, but I laughed out loud much more than I expected, and found it incredibly cute! Love it. The beach scene is unbelievable. I mean, every scene is unbelievable. M. Emmet Walsh’s bit fucking killed me. RIP Carl Reiner. “Things are gonna start happening to me now.”
I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.Me just one moment after meeting a cute girl.
A naive, cheerful man raised by a poor family in Mississippi discovers he is adopted and embarks on a bizarre cross-country journey to find his place in the world.
Carl Reiner directed the 1979 comedy, which served as the cinematic starring debut for its lead actor.
