My Cousin Vinny (1992) My Cousin Vinny
Jonathan Lynn's courtroom comedy. Joe Pesci as Vincent Gambini, a Brooklyn personal-injury lawyer with no trial experience, defends his cousin Bill (Ralph Macchio) and Bill's friend Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) on a capital murder charge in rural Alabama. Marisa Tomei won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Mona Lisa Vito, Vinny's fiancée and an unlicensed automotive mechanic whose expert tire-track testimony is the procedural turning point.
Cast and crew
- Director: Jonathan Lynn
- Writer: Dale Launer
- Vincent "Vinny" Gambini: Joe Pesci
- Mona Lisa Vito: Marisa Tomei
- Bill Gambini: Ralph Macchio
- Stan Rothenstein: Mitchell Whitfield
- Judge Chamberlain Haller: Fred Gwynne
- D.A. Jim Trotter III: Lane Smith
Analysis
- Plot Structure (My Cousin Vinny) — Two Approaches structural reading
- Backbeats (My Cousin Vinny) — the film in 40 beats