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My Cousin Vinny
Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
1992 · Directed by Jonathan Lynn · 119 min · Comedy · Drama · 9 frames
Tagline
There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified the Great American Legal System. This is not one of them.
Crew
- Screenplay: Dale Launer
- Cinematography: Peter Deming
- Edited by: Stephen E. Rivkin, Tony Lombardo
- Music: Randy Edelman
- Production design: Victoria Paul
- Produced by: Paul Schiff, Dale Launer
Cast
- Ralph Macchio as Bill Gambini
- Joe Pesci as Vinny Gambini
- Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito
- Mitchell Whitfield as Stan Rothenstein
- Fred Gwynne as Judge Chamberlain Haller
- Lane Smith as Jim Trotter III
- Austin Pendleton as John Gibbons
- Bruce McGill as Sheriff Farley
- Maury Chaykin as Sam Tipton
- Paulene Myers as Constance Riley
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Palo Vista Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp., 20th Century Fox, Dale Launer Production
- Budget: $11,000,000
- Box office: $64,088,552
- Themes: prison, small town, court case, court, southern usa, alabama, suspicion, cousin, lawyer, fish out of water
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