DVDs/Blu-rays
DVDs in Collection: 2,293
Page # 866

My Cousin Vinny
ID:
United States of America 1992
Comments:
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Screenplay: Dale Launer
Producer: Dale Launer, Paul Schiff
Cast: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne
Genre: Comedy

Running Time: 119
Aspect Ratio:  1.85:1 (NTSC Widescreen)
Sound: AC-3
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Features:
Studio:  20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Region:  1 R
DVD Release:  Aug 2009 Discs:  1 (Cloud) []
Purchase: 
Reviews:  When two Italian-American boys from New York are falsely accused of murder in a small Alabama town, they call for a lawyer--but the only lawyer they know is their cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who made six attempts before he passed his bar exam. "My Cousin Vinny" is a classic fish-out-of-water comedy; the flimsy plot about clearing the two boys and solving the murder is just a hook to support a lot of culture-clash humor. Thanks to the strong cast of character actors like Fred Gwynne, Austin Pendleton, and Lane Smith, it's pretty funny--even old-hat jokes about Brooklyn versus Southern accents come to life. Pesci has played a few too many schticky characters, but this time it works. There's just enough humanity in his caricature to make Vinny likable and entertaining. When the movie was released, there was controversy about whether Marisa Tomei, playing Vinny's big-haired and black-leather-wearing fiancée, deserved to win the best supporting actress Oscar (she beat out Judy Davis, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave); but seeing her performance on its own, it's a comic marvel and worthy of honor.


Click on Title for International Movie Database link, click on Cover for Amazon link!

Close window


Created using DVDpedia on MacOS X Panther