My cousin Vinny / Twentieth Century Fox presents in association with Peter V. Miller Investment Corp. ; written by Dale Launer ; produced by Dale Launer and Paul Schiff ; directed by Jonathan Lynn.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 2000352 | 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Beverly Hills, California : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Producers, Dale Launer, Paul Schiff ; director, Jonathan Lynn ; writer, Dale Launer ; director of photography, Peter Deming ; editor, Tony Lombardo ; music, Randy Edelman.
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 area, Bill decides to call his goofy cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who has somehow recently become a lawyer. Full of family feeling and bravado, Vinny, who has never tried a criminal case in his short life as a lawyer, rides south to defend his trusting relative. He's an expert motormouth and street-level logician from the wilder reaches of metropolitan New York, complete with a thick accent and the attitude to go with it. Otherwise, he's much less well qualified than your average public defender. When he arrives on the scene with his equally brassy girlfriend Lisa (Marisa Tomei), Bill is fairly sure he's going to be sentenced to death. His buddy Stan is even less confident of his legal representative, if that's possible, and the first thing Vinny has to do is to regain the consent of his clients to represent them. The local judge doesn't seem any too sympathetic to Vinny's verbal shenanigans either, and even the most optimistic supporter of the boys would begin to have doubts at this point -- and Vinny's no exception. With the insistent moral encouragement of his girlfriend, Vinny somehow accomplishes the impossible and wins grudging (if very irritated) respect from all concerned, for once studying as if his life depended on it. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, region 1, dual layer; Dolby Digital Surround.
Widescreen (1.85:1, 16/9) presentation.
Producers, Dale Launer, Paul Schiff ; director, Jonathan Lynn ; writer, Dale Launer ; director of photography, Peter Deming ; editor, Tony Lombardo ; music, Randy Edelman.
English or dubbed French dialogue, with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Lane Smith, Austin Pendleton, Maury Chaykin, Bruce McGill, Fred Gwynne.
Videodisc release of the 1992 motion picture.
MPAA rating: R; language.
Two carefree pals (Macchio and Whitfield) traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, Vincent Gambini (Pesci) is the cousin of one of them and he is a lawyer. Vinny is a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try and has never been in court. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Tomei) to handle his first case, it's a real shock--for both Vinny and the Deep South.
Bonus features: optional audio commentary by director Jonathan Lynn; TV spots; theatrical trailers.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Marisa Tomei)