My Cousin Vinny (1992)

A fish-out-of-water courtroom comedy: a brash Brooklyn lawyer who has never tried a case defends two college kids on a murder charge in rural Alabama. Joe Pesci is loud and very funny, but Marisa Tomei steals the movie as Mona Lisa Vito and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for it. It has an unusual second life among real attorneys, who have praised its accurate picture of criminal procedure and trial strategy. That is why the final cross-examinations are so satisfying: the jokes and the legal logic pay off together.