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Ernest Goes to Jail

Actor(s): Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge, Barbara Bush, Barry Scott
Director(s): John Cherry
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: PG
Content Advisory: Excellent For Children, Slapstick Violence
Movie Release: 1990
DVD Release: 09/03/2002
Format: DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 21 mins
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Total Copies: 3
Genres: Comedy, Slapstick, Prison Film

DVD Synopsis

In Ernest Goes to Jail, Jim Varney returns as leering idiot savant Ernest P. Worrall, star of scores of TV commercials and feature films. Varney also takes on a second role in the film: an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer named Felix Nash. When Ernest serves on the jury for Nash's murder trial, Nash arranges for look-alike Ernest to go to jail, while he stays on the outside to plan a major bank heist. Fortuitously for the criminal, it's the same bank where Ernest works as a security guard. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell
Jim Varney - Mr. Nash
Gailard Sartain - Chuck
Bill Byrge - Bobby
Barbara Bush - Charlotte Sparrow
Barry Scott - Rubin Bartlett

Editorial Review of DVD

John Cherry directs Jim Varney in the comedy Ernest Goes to Jail, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, making it quite difficult to recommend this Disney/Buena Vista release to anyone who is not an Ernest fan. There is little here for the average DVD consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Member Movie Reviews

Margaret S. (morgan2010) from GLENVIEW, IL wrote on 11/6/2009...

Ernest was at his best in this movie. And so was his co-stars. It's is a silly movie and sometimes that's a lot better than an over the top action pack,violent movie. So get yourself a bowl of popcorn and enjoy.