My Cousin Vinny
7.5/10
Rating
120 min
Runtime
1992
Release Year
Jonathan Lynn
Director
Cast
Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne
Quick Synopsis
Two college friends traveling through rural Alabama are wrongly arrested and accused of murder. Their only hope is one of their cousins, Vincent Gambini, a newly qualified lawyer from Brooklyn who used to be an auto mechanic and has just passed the bar exam after several attempts. Vincent arrives with his girlfriend, who wears leather, to defend them in his first case, facing cultural clashes and challenges in the conservative Deep South.
Detailed Synopsis of My Cousin Vinny
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!
