My Cousin Vinny
There have been many courtroom dramas that have glorified the Great American Legal System. This is not one of them.
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.
- Director
- Jonathan Lynn
- Worldwide
- $64M
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Cast
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What It's About
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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!
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Box Office & Release
My Cousin Vinny returned 5.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $11M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $64M
- Release date
- Mar 13, 1992
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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