Movie
My Cousin Vinny
Overview
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!
Details
- Release date
- 1992-03-13
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Palo Vista Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp., 20th Century Fox, Dale Launer Production
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Joe Pesci as Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini
- Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito
- Ralph Macchio as William 'Bill' Gambini
- 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
- Raynor Scheine as Ernie Crane
- James Rebhorn as George Wilbur
Crew
- Jonathan Lynn - Director
- Dale Launer - Screenplay
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