7.9 Score

1992 • 2h • R • Comedy, Drama

My Cousin Vinny

"There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified the Great American Legal System. This is not one of them."

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn 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 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!

IMDb 7.6

RT 87%

MC 68

Director

Jonathan Lynn

Writer

Dale Launer

Composer

Randy Edelman

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Joe Pesci

Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini

Marisa Tomei

Mona Lisa Vito

Ralph Macchio

William 'Bill' Gambini

Mitchell Whitfield

Stan Rothenstein

Fred Gwynne

Judge Chamberlain Haller

Lane Smith

Jim Trotter III

Austin Pendleton

John Gibbons

Bruce McGill

Sheriff Farley

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