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Summary: My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Review: In 1992, My Cousin Vinny was the one movie that made everybody laugh until their sides split. I've been watching the film ever since it was released and all I did was laugh my rear-end off. Twelve years have gone by since the film was released and I'm still laughing today. Any actor or actress can get a rise out of you if they knew the right way to do it, but nobody can get a rise of you the way Joe Pesci does in this film; nobody can do it they way Marisa Tomei does in this film. When two college buddies by the names of Bill (played by Ralph Macchio) and Stan (Mitchell Whitford) are driving down the roads of Beecham County, Alabama, they are suddenly arrested for the murder of a grocery store clerk, but what the police of Alabama don't know is that Bill and Stan are completely innocent. Unable to afford a public attorney, Bill turns to his cousin, Vincent Gambini (played by Joe Pesci), an ex-auto-mechanic turned lawyer from Brooklyn, New York, who just past his bar exam after failing it the first five times and knows absolutely nothing about law. By his side is his beautiful fiancee, Lisa Vito (played by Marisa Tomei, in her Oscar-winning role), who is an out-of-work hairdresser that knows every damn thing there is to know about cars. The court is led by Judge Chamberlain Haller (played by the late Fred Gwyne), who has absolutely no patience for any kind of misbehavior in his courtroom. Seems as though Vinny has now finally realized his no longer in New York and is now in a state where no one gets away with any kind of behavior or crime and has finally met his match. Can Vinny pull his cousin out of this mess without screwing up the case? Watch My Cousin Vinny as he desperately tries to save his little cousin while he gives you non-stop laughter along the way.
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Summary: South Brooklyn meets The South
Review: Subtly employing the city mouse/country mouse theme, MY COUSIN VINNY is a light-hearted courtroom comedy. While it occasionally stoops to some stereotyping, the movie doesn't do so mean-spiritedly. In any event, both sides get equal skewering. Vinny Gambini, brilliantly portrayed by Joe Pesci, is a Brooklyn boy who has finally passed the Bar (after repeated failures) and now finds himself defending his nephew and his nephew's friend against murder charges in the Bible Belt. Along with his too beautiful fiancee, played by Academy Award Winner Marissa Tomei, Pesci investigates the southern style of life, as he fathoms southern courtroom procedures and tries to get some sleep. The resulting clash of cultures is sometimes predictable, but honestly, is very inventive for the most part. The comedy of the court room scenes is heightened by the late Fred Gwynne who plays the presiding judge. His by-the-book habits and short-fused temper are a perfect foil to Vinny's laconic style. It is their interaction that feeds most of the cultural clashing. But there is also a clash of the sexes that underlies the film, as Vinny stubbornly refuses the help of his fiancee. This confrontation is also highlighted in the courtroom when the DA refuses to believe that she could possibly be considered an expert in automechanics, even though her brothers, her father, her uncles, and just about everyone else in her family are expert mechanics. (The DA becomes convinced in a wonderful cross-interview scene.) MY COUSIN VINNY was both critically well-received and a huge box-office success. There's a reason for that: it is a well-written, well-directed and perfectly acted comedy that stands up well even after repeated viewings. See it for yourself and you'll understand why, too.
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Summary: Laugh till it hurts funny
Review: This movie cracks me up everytime I see it. Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei will make you laugh till your stomach hurts. I owned this film on VHS but had to buy it on DVD for fear I would wear the tape out. Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud!!!!
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Summary: Oh yeah
Review: I love this movie. Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei are outstanding in this film. It may be their best role each of their careers. Individually they are great actors, but by putting them together the result was greater. You might say that one plus one equal three in this case. The film is very funny and they win the biggest case of their lives. Tomei won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role in the movie. Pesci shows both his comedic side and his dramatic side.
"My Cousin Vinny" was a success with both the critics and with the general public. It is a well-written, well-directed and well-acted comedy that can be enjoyed by the viewer even after repeated viewings. Enjoy!
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Summary: Gotta love Joe Pesci
Review: This movie is Joe Pesci at his finest, even though Home Alone was good, it didn't display all his acting. This shows his comedic side and his dramatic side. The movie does seem to run-on in some scenes, but that don't matter, great movie, anybody can laugh watching this movie.
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Summary: Vinny the individual is slowly painted in this revealing fil
Review: Great Film, yes but the beauty is just a bit deeper, metaphoric as the entire movie is of Vinny's personality.
Watch the film, and you'll discover a personality many of us know in our lives. The laconic individual, without an ego, may be a bit eccentric, bohemian, with a certain apathy to rules. But this individual is not trying to be better than others, only that they sing to a different tune. Perhaps the colors only come visible when they're placed in a situation where no stone needs unturned.
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Summary: outstanding
Review: This is an all time classic of a movie. One that any generation can enjoy. Without revealing to much the story kind a goes like a this.
Two boys get caught up in a crime they claim they didn't comit. So they get cousin Vinny to defend them. Now Vinney may or may not be a legitamit lawyer, but that is not going to stop him from getting his boys off.
Out landish comedy that you will remember for a life time.
Especially about Grits. Ex: So you tellin me that the laws of physics do not work in your kitchen?
Enjoy:
David
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Summary: Endless laughs from beginning to the end
Review: I feel there are few comic duos that truly illustrate the term synergy; the combined efforts of several are greater than the sum of their individual efforts. The couple that come readily to mind for me are Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as well as Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Individually, Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei are fine actors, but together I think they put on the performance of their lives.
The story is unique and extraordinarily well written. A couple of city teenagers (played by Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield) are arrested in Alabama and charged with shooting a convenience store clerk. The confess to the crime, thinking they were being charged with shoplifting. In jail facing capital murder charges, one of the teens calls his cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), an ex-auto mechanic who finally passed the BAR exam on his 6th try. Vinny is escorted by his beautiful fiancée (Marisa Tormei), an out of work hairdresser who is a genius when it comes to cars. The humor of the movie comes from city attitude meets the properness of the south. Vinny's lack of knowledge of law combined with his city attitude clashing with Judge Haller makes for 2 hours of laughs.
This is a great movie to watch at home with a date and a beer on a Friday night. It is one of a few movies that I can watch several times and not get tired of. I still laugh hysterically when I watch what happens to the new guys in prison.
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Summary: Northern Lawyer meets Southern Justice - unexpected results!
Review: Joe Pesci and Marisa Tormei are both an absolute scream in this movie. The sparks fly between Pesci and girlfriend Tormei, as well as between Pesci and Fred Gwynne's Chamberlain Holler, an Alabama Judge. I had dreaded seeing it - the television ads almost made me cringe as I anticipated a film which would bash southern rednecks. What I had NOT anticipated was that a story could be told about a couple of New Yorkers falsely charged and locked up in an Alabama jail that could be resolved in a way that justice could be served and the southerners would be portrayed in a way that was not at all stereotypical. I can think of no other plot that has as one of its essential elements a comparison of the amount of time required to properly cook grits. "No self-respecting southerner would make instant grits" a character proclaims from the witness stand during the trial that is the centerpiece of this witty screenplay, and the other southerners in the film's jury nod their heads in understanding. Fred Gwynne is light-years away from Herman Munster as the wise southern judge who is out for justice, but not to be trifled with. Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield have little to do other than look worried that Ralph's Cousin Vinny isn't going to come through and save the day. At less than 10 bucks, I'd buy this DVD if only to watch Tormei's hilarious response when Pesci tells her that he has been invited to go deer hunting with the Lane Smith's District Attorney.
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