After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.

• DirectorCarl Reiner
• Release14 December 1979
• GenreComedy
• Duration1h 34m
• Budget$4,000,000
• Revenue$100,000,000
• Rate
  

  6.9
  863 reviews
• Productions

  Universal Pictures, Aspen Film Society