My Cousin Vinny

Mar 13, 1992

2h 0m

★ 7.5

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

Overview

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!

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Palo Vista Productions

Peter V. Miller Investment Corp.

20th Century Fox

Dale Launer Production

My Cousin Vinny Trailers

Cast

Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini

Joe Pesci

Mona Lisa Vito

Marisa Tomei

William 'Bill' Gambini

Ralph Macchio

Stan Rothenstein

Mitchell Whitfield

Judge Chamberlain Haller

Fred Gwynne

Jim Trotter III

Lane Smith

John Gibbons

Austin Pendleton

Sheriff Farley

Bruce McGill

Sam Tipton

Maury Chaykin

Constance Riley

Paulene Myers

Ernie Crane

Raynor Scheine

George Wilbur

James Rebhorn

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