Amazon.com Essentials:
Carl Reiner (Where's Poppa?)
brought comic Steve Martin to the screen in this mostly funny 1979
movie about a relentlessly stupid but innocent man, whom we get to
know from childhood (where it never occurred to him that he was white
as he was raised by a family of black sharecroppers) to romance (where
he doesn't quite know what to do with Bernadette Peters). Martin is
game as the moron, and this is the kind of film with funny moments
people still talk about. The DVD release has production notes, bios,
highlights, theatrical trailer, closed captioning, full-screen
presentation, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
