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| rdfs:comment | - My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 comedy film about Vincent Gambini (played by Joe Pesci), a lawyer who tries to defend a New York couple accused of murder. Marisa Tomei won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
- Pesci plays Vinny Gambini, a New York attorney newbie who has to go to Alabama to defend his Wrongly Accused cousin and friend in a murder trial. Hilarity and profanity ensue. Tomei plays his argumentative fiancée with a highly-exaggerated New York accent that got her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Despite the Fish Out of Water premise, Southerners are not portrayed as hicks; a fair percentage of the Southerners are actually decent, commonsensical folks.
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| abstract | - My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 comedy film about Vincent Gambini (played by Joe Pesci), a lawyer who tries to defend a New York couple accused of murder. Marisa Tomei won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
- Pesci plays Vinny Gambini, a New York attorney newbie who has to go to Alabama to defend his Wrongly Accused cousin and friend in a murder trial. Hilarity and profanity ensue. Tomei plays his argumentative fiancée with a highly-exaggerated New York accent that got her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Despite the Fish Out of Water premise, Southerners are not portrayed as hicks; a fair percentage of the Southerners are actually decent, commonsensical folks. Also notable for being extremely accurate on the legal side. To the point it's watched and dissected in law school because it shows how some things are done both correctly and incorrectly.
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