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. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Palo Vista Productions
Language
en
Status
Released
How My Cousin Vinny performed
Budget
$11.0M
Worldwide Gross
$64.1M
Gross Profit
$53.1M
Return
5.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$9M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini
Joe Pesci
Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini
Mona Lisa Vito
Marisa Tomei
Mona Lisa Vito
William 'Bill' Gambini
Ralph Macchio
William 'Bill' Gambini
Stan Rothenstein
Mitchell Whitfield
Stan Rothenstein
Judge Chamberlain Haller
Fred Gwynne
Judge Chamberlain Haller
Jim Trotter III
Lane Smith
Jim Trotter III
John Gibbons
Austin Pendleton
John Gibbons
Sheriff Farley
Bruce McGill
Sheriff Farley
Sam Tipton
Maury Chaykin
Sam Tipton
Constance Riley
Paulene Myers
Constance Riley
Ernie Crane
Raynor Scheine
Ernie Crane
George Wilbur
James Rebhorn
George Wilbur
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