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    • Born just too late to see Steve Martin as a jerk

    • Made just a couple of years before I joined the world of the living, this film has influenced my sense of humor in a way that I could never (and would never want to) shake. It's ridiculous.

      From the opening line about Steve Martin's character being born a poor black child to the many misadventures he gets himself into, this movie will crack you up. But maybe not your wife.

       
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    LadyIra said:
    do you get excited about new phonebooks too? "Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now."
    posted over 3 years ago
    gamma said:
    I remember watching this movie for the first time on HBO sometime in the 1980s. I still love to watch it because of how extreme some of the comedic scenes get. I just loved the scene where he learned what his "special purpose" was for and wrote home about it. I still just roll from laughing so hard every time I watch it.
    posted about 1 year ago

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