My cousin Winnie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | My cousin Winnie |
| Original title | My cousin Vinny |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Lynn |
| script | Dale Launer |
| production |
Dale Launer , Paul Schiff |
| music | Randy Edelman |
| camera | Peter Deming |
| cut |
Tony Lombardo , Stephen E. Rivkin |
| occupation | |
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My Cousin Winnie is an American comedy film from 1992 .
action
The two friends Billy and Stan from New York travel through Alabama. In Beechum they shop in a shop, the owner of which is murdered shortly afterwards. When arrested, they believe it was a store item that they accidentally pocketed without paying. Laughing, they confess the alleged act, without realizing the consequences. Prosecutors are charging both of them with murder in an Alabama court. Billy asks his cousin, attorney Winnie Gambini, to defend her. However, Winnie has only just received approval on the sixth attempt and has never been brought to trial. During the trial, he managed to keep his clients in further distress and ended up in prison himself for disregarding the court. Stan prefers to be represented by a public defender whom he fires than to see the attorney stutter in court. Meanwhile, Gambini portrays the prosecution's witnesses as implausible. With the help of his fiancée Mona Lisa Vito, Gambini gets on the right track. You can use tire prints to prove Billy and Stan are innocent. The judge receives a fax from New York from one of Mona's friends depicting Gambini as an experienced lawyer, whereupon he apologizes to Winnie. Shortly afterwards, the sheriff of a neighboring county reports that two men who are very similar to Billy and Stan were arrested as urgent suspects.
additional
It was Fred Gwynne's last film.
reception
The film was a surprise success: it grossed more than $ 64 million at a production cost of $ 11 million. In August 2008, a list of the best judicial films of all time appeared in the American Bar Association Journal . My cousin Winnie came in third behind the classics Who Disrupts the Nightingale and The Twelve Jurors .
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 13, 1992 that the film vacillates between the wrong paths and successful parts. He is based in the south of the USA, but do not repeat corresponding clichés. Ebert highly praised a scene in front of the court and the portrayals of Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei. For the magazine Videomarkt, "above all the verbal exchange of blows between the brilliant Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei [...] provides the comedic highlights." The lexicon of international films sees the film critically as a "comedy that is about the supposed gap between Wants to make fun of town and country. With the crude denunciating means they use for this purpose, however, the filmmakers reveal themselves as the real backwoodsmen. "
Awards
Marisa Tomei was in 1993 for her role with an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress Award. She also received an MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance . Joe Pesci received an American Comedy Award , he was also nominated for the MTV Movie Award.
swell
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-12/entertainment/ca-1669_1_weekend-box-office
- ^ The 25 Greatest Legal Movies - Magazine . ABA Journal. August 1, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ http://www.mediabiz.de/firmen/kinofilm.afp?Nr=1457&Ti=20903&Biz=videobiz&Premium=N&Navi=00000000
- ↑ My cousin Winnie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- My Cousin Vinny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My Cousin Vinny at Rotten Tomatoes (English)