IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like The Jerk (1979)
The Jerk runs on joyful exuberance, crowd-pleaser, and deadpan absurdity. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Kingpin
1996
The Main Event
1979
Easy Money
1983
Cat Ballou
1965
Happy Gilmore
1996
The Card
1952
Love on Delivery
1994
Happy Gilmore 2
2025
Private Benjamin
1980
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
2006
Would I Lie to You?
1997
Son of Paleface
1952
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
The Rocker
2008
The Patsy
1964
The Waterboy
1998
Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous
2008
Run, Waiter, Run!
1981
Njan Prakashan
2018
Gentleman Jim
1942
Beverly Hills Ninja
1997
They Call Me Trinity
1970
Billy Madison
1995
Blackball
2003