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My Cousin Vinny

"There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified the Great American Legal System. This is not one of them."

R 1992 · 2h 0m · Drama, Comedy
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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!

Theatrical
Mar 13, 1992
Box Office
$64.1M
Budget
$11.0M
Return
5.8x
DVD / Blu-ray
Jul 25, 2000
Theaters
13
Director
Jonathan Lynn
Writer
Dale Launer
Producers
Paul Schiff, Dale Launer, Randi Chernov
Music
Randy Edelman
Studio
Palo Vista Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp., 20th Century Fox, Dale Launer Production
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A Unique Take on Courtroom Dramas
Taglines There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified The Great American Legal System. This is not one of them.
A Comedy of Trial and Error
Taglines A Comedy of Trial and Error
Questioning the Validity of Visual Evidence
Vinny I find it hard to believe that this kind of information could be ascertained simply by looking at a picture!
[Questioning Lisa]
Lisa Would you like me to explain?
Vinny I would love to hear this!
Judge Haller ...So would I.
Lisa The car that made these two equal-length tire marks had positraction. Can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the 64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa It's a limited-slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The 64 Skylark had a regular differential, which anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothin’.
Juror That's right.
[Quietly]
Expert Knowledge Tested in Courtroom Exchange
Jim Trotter Now, uh, Ms. Vito, bein’ an expert on general automotive knowledge, can you tell me... what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
Lisa That's a bullshit question.
[scoffing]
Jim Trotter Does that mean that you can't answer it?
Lisa It's a bullshit question, it's impossible to answer.
Jim Trotter Impossible because you don't know the answer!
Lisa Nobody could answer that question!
Jim Trotter Your Honor, I move to disqualify Ms. Vito as an "expert witness"!
Judge Haller Can you answer the question?

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