DVD : My Cousin Vinny
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PESCI,JOE
EAN: 9786305929703
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630592970X
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 2411
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1992
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Two carefree pals (Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield) traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini (Joe Pesci, Lethal Weapon 3, Home Alone), a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. Vinny's never been in court - or in Alabama - and when he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Marisa Tomei in her Oscar® winning Supporting Actress performance), to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
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When two Italian-American boys from New York are falsely accused of murder in a small Alabama town, they call for a lawyer--but the only lawyer they know is their cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who made six attempts before he passed his bar exam. My Cousin Vinny is a classic fish-out-of-water comedy; the flimsy plot about clearing the two boys and solving the murder is just a hook to support a lot of culture-clash humor. Thanks to the strong cast of character actors like Fred Gwynne, Austin Pendleton, and Lane Smith, it's pretty funny--even old-hat jokes about Brooklyn versus Southern accents come to life. Pesci has played a few too many schticky characters, but this time it works. There's just enough humanity in his caricature to make Vinny likable and entertaining. When the movie was released, there was controversy about whether Marisa Tomei, playing Vinny's big-haired and black-leather-wearing fiancée, deserved to win the best supporting actress Oscar (she beat out Judy Davis, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, and Vanessa Redgrave); but seeing her performance on its own, it's a comic marvel and worthy of honor. --Bret Fetzer
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This is the funniest movie I've ever seen. This is definitely my favorite comedy movie.
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Thanks for being so prompt. Have not watched the movie yet, but I'm sure it's fine.
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Two college kids are on a road trip through the South. They stop for gas at a convenience store, buy some groceries, and leave. The store is robbed, the cashier is fatally shot, and all the evidence points to them. They have no money so they turn to Billy Gambini's (Ralph Macchio) Cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), a lawyer.
Marisa Tomei won an Oscar for her role in My Cousin Vinny. I always liked Marisa Tomei, but I figured it must be a fluke. They don't usually give any Oscars to comedies, especially popular ones that do well at the box office. So I was skeptical, but Marisa won me over as Mona Lisa Vito, cousin Vinny's girlfriend.
She seemed like a parody of a New Jersey Italian girl, but her character was also very smart. She wanted Vinny to marry her, and he had promised he would as soon as he won his first case. So, she was determined to make that happen, even if she had to read the law books herself and explain them to Vinny. She did a very accurate send up of the mode of speech and dress, that skewered them, but with love.
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Mona Lisa Vito: [Vinny looks at her funny] What?
Vinny Gambini: Nothing. You stick out like a sore thumb around here.
Mona Lisa Vito: Me? What about you?
Vinny Gambini: I fit in better than you. At least I'm wearing cowboy boots.
Mona Lisa Vito: Oh yeah, you blend.
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Joe Pesci, as Cousin Vinny, was also very ... Read More
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Hillarious! By now, almost every line from the movie is a classic !
It's fantastic, you'll enjoy it; buy it !
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Truth be told, `My Cousin Vinny' is funny. If we're being completely honest though I have to mention that the laughs start to feel forced and repetitive as the film drags on. Yes, `My Cousin Vinny' is one long stereotype that is funny for a while but then borders on the annoying.
I don't want to rip the movie apart, because it's not the first film to base its comedic foundation on a slew of racial and demographical stereotypes. It's also not the worst film to abuse a code of ethics when depicting racial interaction (this is no where near as degrading as `Crash') yet the problem lies in the fact that instead of using these stereotypes as a way to embellish character and create something relatable it uses them in an almost shameless manner at times.
It borders tacky.
But those moments are not consistent; that is to say that they are not so rampant that the whole film feels like a mistake. The film has its genuine moments and is littered with some rich performances that allow for the stereotypes to give their character flare instead of allowing them to control and bog them down.
The film follows Vinny Gambini, a hot shot lawyer (sort of) who travels from New York to Alabama to defend his cousin who has just been accused of murder. It happens that Billy (Vinny's cousin) and his friend Stan were mistaken for two boys driving a similar car who happened to kill a convenience store employee. Not knowing what to do, and being ... Read More
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starring: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne
directed by: Jonathan Lynn
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PESCI,JOE
EAN: 9786305929703
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630592970X
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 2411
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1992
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