My Cousin Vinny
Two teenage boys are on a mission to explore south from New York but end up in prison instead. Now they need the help of their cousin, a lawyer familiar with Southern rules.
27 March 1940, Warren, Ohio, USA
27 July 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 December 1964, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
19 January 1942, Emporia, Virginia, USA
10 July 1926, New York City, New York, USA
4 September 1945, Frierson, Louisiana, USA
4 November 1961, Huntington, Long Island, New York, USA
29 April 1936, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
14 April 1956, Dallas, Texas, USA
29 December 1946
January 24, 2015
The undercurrent of fish-out-of-water silliness goes a long way towards perpetuating the affable atmosphere...
April 30, 2014
For all of its grossly stereotypical characterizations and cheap laughs, My Cousin Vinny does benefit from Pesci's characteristically energetic performance. And co-star Tomei looks very nice in a clinging blue dress with gold lame applique.
April 30, 2014
Marisa Tomei, as Vinny's fiancée, imbues the most obligatory reactions with either a startling ferocity or a farcical ambiguity worthy of her character's name: Mona Lisa Vito.
April 30, 2014
[An] enjoyable fish-out-of-water comedy.
April 30, 2014
As Vincent Gambini, a swaggering pint-sized New York lawyer who only recently passed the bar on his sixth try, Pesci modulates his usual psycho-nuttiness and gives it some recognizably human, even melancholy, undertones.
April 30, 2014
With such canny scene-stealers as Gwynne, Smith, Pendleton, McGill and Chaykin filling out the cast, it is very hard for My Cousin Vinny to go wrong, and indeed, for the purpose of pleasant Saturday night entertainment, it does not.
April 30, 2014
Nothing makes a moviegoer feel more isolated than sitting stony-faced through a comedy that makes the rest of the audience laugh and cheer.
April 30, 2014
The movie sags as Vinny sets out to demolish the patently shaky case and dubious witnesses for the prosecution. Pesci does his best, but a lawyer's suit on him becomes a straitjacket.
April 30, 2014
The regional stereotypes in Dale Launer's broad script aren't so laudable, but the on-screen talent merits a retrial: Tomei talks up a storm and Pesci terrorises thinly spread gags into near-shape.
April 30, 2014
The screenplay by Dale Launer has all the sophomoric qualities of a C- grade TV movie.
March 13, 2017
Vinny is a winning character and Pesci's performance as the beleaguered litigant is terrific - cranked yet cuddly.
April 30, 2014
I don't want to oversell My Cousin Vinny. It's hardly brilliant. But it's easygoing and occasionally quite funny and ultimately satisfying.
