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My Cousin Vinny (1992)
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The premise sounds like a shelf full of culture-clash caricatures, and the film certainly uses some. What lasts is the precision of the exchanges: Joe Pesci's bluster meets Fred Gwynne's immovable authority, while Marisa Tomei's apparently underestimated fiancée has knowledge that matters. The courtroom gives interruptions and delayed reactions a clear structure. It is worth returning for those relationships and the patient preparation of the payoffs, rather than simply waiting for the familiar accent joke.
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About My Cousin Vinny
Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!