Ernest Goes To Jail

1990 • 81 minutes

About this movie

Only a bumbling bank janitor like know-it-all knucklehead Ernest P. Worrell (Emmy(R) Award-winning comedian Jim Varney) could serve on jury duty and wind up serving time -- in the slammer! The laughs start when a crooked lawyer discovers that Ernest is a dead ringer for his crime-boss client ... and before you can say "Framed!" -- the switch is on! While Ernest is behind bars trying to fit in and break out, he manages to turn the big house into a nuthouse full of big laughs. Meanwhile, his evil double is busy taking his place at the bank and in his girlfriend's life! Full of comic inventiveness, a wacky cast of characters, and slam-bang special effects, ERNEST GOES TO JAIL is guilty of maximum fun in the first degree!

Ratings and reviews

He does have a funny series on his movies, including when he goes to the army, that one is the best I like.

I don't know how I'd feel about this movie now, but as a kid I loved it!

He was my biggest inspiration to become an actor and when I heard he died I was really sad