Roger Cobb (Steve Martin) is a swinging bachelor who is a lawyer but would rather be a jazz musician. Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin) is an ailing spinster who is given a second chance at life given her soul can be “transported” into that of a another woman – specifically, the beautiful daughter of the stable hand. Unfortunately, the guru-in-charge goofs, and Edwina’s soul winds up taking over the entire right side of Roger, who now must learn to cope with being half the man he was. Now Edwina and Roger are living together in the same body. He’s losing his job. He’s losing his girlfriend. And he just can’t seem to get her out of his system. No matter how hard he tries. Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin make the perfect Couple of Comedy in this hilariously concocted plot.
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Always that inane stupid face!
So something occurred to me: Will Edwina see her old body every time she looks in a mirror from now on or Miss Hoskins'? Steve starred with Bernadette Peters in "The Jerk" and then almost married her. Then he made this movie with Victoria Tennent and DID marry her! Steve met his current wife, Anne Stringfield, in an interesting way too: She worked for The New Yorker magazine as a fact checker and had to call Steve several times for several of his comic works. They then began talking outside of work-related stuff and dated for 3 years.
I have always loved all of Steve Martin's work… movies, SNL, standup, whatever… but "The Jerk" was def one of my all-time favorites movies. Bust-a-gut laughing all the way through! I always thought he was so handsome too!
I LOVE the closing dance scene @1:29:10 between Steve and Lily! Makes me smile!
Back when Steve was at the top of his game. I saw this with my best friend John when it came out and we laughed ourselves silly throughout this movie (well, once it gets going at around the 25 minute mark). So funny! And we were saying "Edwina…BACK IN BOWL!" for the next ten years for any and every occasion… Me: "Hey, hand me that screwdriver." John: "Edwina…BACK IN BOWL!" It makes no sense but it always made the other one laugh.
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Just bring back those times.
Madolyn Smith oh my my my just so beautiful what a women……
2:11 This was a novel? it's hard to imagine it without the physical comedy.
Brilliant!
Back in bowl. Back in bowl.
Martin is a real AH. It's Lily T who is the genius. Can't keep my eyes off of her. Tom Hanks would have made an immensely better, if not more believable, Roger Cobb.
This movie was so fun .. Steve Martin is awesome ❣
Is that the same dog that played $—head in The Jerk?
Life is weird when you're watching Steve Martin when he was 38-39 and you've always thought of him as being so old but realize you're less than ten years younger than him when he was in this movie.
I love Lili Tomlin in this flic.
Something about Lily Tomlin that I really like, yet I can't really say what it is!.. I get the feeling maybe, that she's just a real beautiful person. That's all.
Steve Martin has always been a great banjo / guitar player.
that was really him in the beginning.
31:08
Unfortunately, the lighting is poor.
Haven't seen this since I was little. I used to loved this movie!
16:49 Bananas
I like how in the end, it was actually her choice to be swapped out. This was the early 1980s, so they could have gone any way on that. Still, the elephant in the room, the fact that people can swap souls through magic, was dropped on the floor and never picked up again. She's wealthy enough to enslave that swami, keep him alive indefinitely, and run to the limits of imagination with what one could do with the ability to swap souls.
OH MY GOD THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD AND IT'S SO HARD TO FIND NOWADAYS THIS AND I'M BACK AGAIN BOTH WONDERFUL WONDERFUL MOVIES.
I love watching these old movies, my childhood coming back.
Lili Tomlin's performance was impressive at the least. She deserved awards in my opinion for this performance.
Yes, I agree.
I routinely use the line "Ahhhhh, good plan!", taken from this movie. No one has ever gotten it.
5:17…. “Ah Good Plan.” I was laughing so hard
Great movie