My Cousin Vinny
Truth, Justice and the Gambini Way.
Truth, Justice and the Gambini Way.
Comedy
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1992
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Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama 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 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!
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
120 min
Release date:
13 Mar 1992
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$11,000,000
Revenue:
$64,088,552
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 6 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Nothing makes a moviegoer feel more isolated than sitting stony-faced through a comedy that makes the rest of the audience laugh and cheer.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
30 Apr 2014
fresh:
As Vincent Gambini, a swaggering pint-sized New York lawyer who only recently passed the bar on his sixth try, Pesci modulates his usual psycho-nuttiness and gives it some recognizably human, even melancholy, undertones.
– Peter Rainer,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr 2014
rotten:
The movie sags as Vinny sets out to demolish the patently shaky case and dubious witnesses for the prosecution. Pesci does his best, but a lawyer's suit on him becomes a straitjacket.
– Desmond Ryan,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
30 Apr 2014
fresh:
Marisa Tomei, as Vinny's fiancee, imbues the most obligatory reactions with either a startling ferocity or a farcical ambiguity worthy of her character's name: Mona Lisa Vito.
– Michael Sragow,
New Yorker,
30 Apr 2014
fresh:
With such canny scene-stealers as Gwynne, Smith, Pendleton, McGill and Chaykin filling out the cast, it is very hard for My Cousin Vinny to go wrong, and indeed, for the purpose of pleasant Saturday night entertainment, it does not.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr 2014