My Cousin Vinny (1992)

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.