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When two Italian-American boys from New York are falsely accused of murder in a small Alabama town, they call for a lawyer--but the only lawyer they know is their cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who made six attempts before he passed his bar exam.My Cousin Vinnyis a classic fish-out-of-water comedy; the flimsy plot about clearing the two boys and solving the murder is just a hook to support a lot of culture-clash humor. Thanks to the strong cast of character actors like Fred Gwynne, Austin Pendleton, and Lane Smith, it's pretty funny--even old-hat jokes about Brooklyn versus Southern accents come to life. Pesci has played a few too many schticky characters, but this time it works. There's just enough humanity in his caricature to make Vinny likable and entertaining. When the movie was released, there was controversy about whether Marisa Tomei, playing Vinny's big-haired and black-leather-wearing fiancée, deserved to win the best supporting actress Oscar (she beat out Judy Davis, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave); but seeing her performance on its own, it's a comic marvel and worthy of honor.--Bret Fetzer
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Cast:
Marisa Tomei,
Fred Gwynne,
Ralph Macchio,
Mitchell Whitfield,
Joe Pesci
Director: Jonathan Lynn
DVD Release Date: July 25, 2000
Runtime: 120 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Jonathan Lynn
DVD Release Date: July 25, 2000
Runtime: 120 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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I'd heard about this movie for a while and was really looking forward to seeing it. However, I was very disappointed with the final movie. The humor seemed forced and predictable for the most part. There were just too many cases in which the scriptwriters forced the characters to behave moronically in order to create miscommunications. Then the audience is supposed to laugh all because Vinny didn't do something as simple and basic as introduce himself (the jail scene) or the police didn't tell the … more
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