Advantages: hilarious, Tomei and Pesci Disadvantages: extraneous plot twist
Just looking at Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci in 'My Cousin Vinny' (1992) makes me laugh. And when they speak, I laugh harder. This film is definitely one of the funniest produced in the past fifteen years.
Stan and Billy, on a road trip in Alabama, are stopped by the police after buying groceries at a roadside shop. The paranoid recent university graduates speculate that people are executed for minor infractions in that area. Alabama is notorious ... ...blokes (Ralph Macchio) has forgotten to pay for a can of tuna fish and thinks that they are being arrested for that.
When they are brought to jail, it turns out that they have been arrested for a much more serious crime--murder!
To save their lives, they need to find a good lawyer, so they call home. Billy's mother presents the boys with 'great news': cousin Vinny is a lawyer, so he'll head down to Alabama to represent them. Unfortunately for Billy ...
OKkaraoke 18.01.2003 (20.01.2003)
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Advantages: its funny all round Disadvantages: there was never a sequel
...the rather darker Goodfellas. In My Cousin Vinny however, he takes another step up the ladder of comedy fame with a superb performance as Vincent Gambini, a lawyer who has finally passed his Bar exams after six years of attempts.
A road trip for his young cousin and a friend turns disastrous when they are falsely accused of murder in a Southern State and face the electric chair. Comic mix-ups mean they think the initial share is just one of shoplifting, ... ...Marisa Tomei is superb as a foil to Pesci, playing his long-suffering girlfriend, whose “biological clock is ticking”. While Fred “Herman Munster” Gwynne puts in one of his best performances of his long career too.
Plenty of gaffs, laughs and thought-provoking moments. A film you can watch over and over again. ...
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1992'sMy Cousin Vinnyis a delightful comedy-cum-courtroom drama set in Alabama. Joe Pesci ... more
stars as Vinny, the garage mechanic recently turned lawyer, who finds himself straight in at the deep end when his young cousin is unjustly arrested, along with h...
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1992'sMy Cousin Vinnyis a delightful comedy-cum-courtroom drama set in Alabama. Joe Pesci ... more
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Two carefree pals travelling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with ... more
murder. Fortunately, one of them has a lawyer friend in the family - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has never been in court - or in Alabama...
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