My Cousin Vinny

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

  • 85% of critics liked it
    (39 reviews)

  • 81% of users liked it
    (95,991 ratings)

When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick Southern town, at first it looks like no big deal. Then they are informed that they are accused of murder. Penniless and without a single friend in the… More

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R, 2 hr.
Directed By
Jonathan Lynn
Written By
Dale Launer
Genres
Comedy
On DVD
Aug 14, 2001
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Tomei, sashaying through the proceedings as kind of a sexy hood ornament, creates a buoyant chemistry with her combative b.f.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    While it's easy to imagine an infinite number of bad courtroom comedies based on this scenario, this movie turns out to be wonderful -- broad and low character comedy that's solidly imagined and beautifully played.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Easily the most inventive and enjoyable American film farce in a long time, even during those extended patches when it seems to be marking time or when it continues with a running gag that can't stay the distance.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    You might not remember much about My Cousin Vinny an hour later, but the cast makes the jokes (even the bad ones) go down easy.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Joe Pesci is a total screen pleasure. He grabs whatever comes his way -- from GoodFellas to Home Alone

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Melvin W


    Vinny: Uh... everything that guy just said is bullshit... Thank you.  "Truth, Justice and the Gambini Way." My Cousin Vinny is one of the funnier comedies I have ever seen. The cast is great, with Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei and Fred Gwynn. The film has some of the funniest… More

  • Martin S


    Remember the first time I saw it. Had never heard of it...and I was blown away

  • moon r


    Riotous fish-out-of-water tale as New Yorkers are trapped down South and fed grits! Pesci is one tough little a--hole (doh! again! but he's good at it) as he and his babe deluxe go shake up the yokels. Though this is Pesci's film look for Marisa Tomei, she's a… More

  • Bethany M


    Hilarious!

  • Jeff "


    My Cousin Vinny is a fun and humourous comedy. After being arrested in a hick town and accused of murder, two teens who are unable to afford a good lawyer hire one of their cousins who became a lawyer. Unfortunately for them, he's fairly eccentric and not very qualified to take… More

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