The Wicker Man (2006)
A sheriff investigates the disappearance of a young girl from a small island, only to discover sinister forces at work among the island's secretive residents, including strange sexual rituals, a harvest festival and possible human sacrifice.
12 December 1998, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
9 September 1949, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
7 December 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 June 1983, New York City, New York, USA
3 June 1995
7 December 1972, Oakland, California, USA
6 August 1980, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
5 March 1982, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 January 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
August 22, 1974 in London, England, UK
9 February 1970, Salford, Manchester, England, UK
17 February 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 December 1974, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
9 September 1949, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
7 January 1964, Long Beach, California, USA
12 October 1974, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
12 April 1967, Northern California, USA
12 March 1968, Cupertino, California, USA
12 May 1995, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
26 October 1935, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
30 June 1972, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
July 31, 2005
While The Jerk is an extremely episodic little movie, that's a malady easily forgiven -- simply because the episodes are so damn funny.
February 02, 2009
An artless, non-stop barrage of off-the-wall situations, funny and unfunny jokes, generally effective and sometimes hilarious sight gags and bawdy non sequiturs.
February 13, 2010
92 minutes of direct and sweet surrealism
February 02, 2009
If only he could have satisfied himself with this area of expertise, people would still talk of Steve Martin as one of the kings of comic cinema.
February 02, 2009
Its humor is successful and unsuccessful by turns, and although Comedian Carl Reiner is the director, the instinct here is to give most of both credit and blame to Martin.
June 24, 2006
The comedy runs out of steam when the jerk makes good, but laugh for laugh it's probably a better investment than 10.
April 06, 2006
The whole thing is uneven and slight, but the highlight moments guilty-pleasure us with the sort of stupid-funny that's 'LOL' quotable afterward.
December 12, 2012
An oddball odyssey so strange, filled with non-sequiturs so funny, and decorated by a romance so sweet, it was an inevitable star-maker.
July 05, 2005
We get the sense at times that the cast and crew arrived at a location, found the script bankrupt of real laughs, and started looking around for funny props.
