Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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!
- prison
- small town
- court case
- court
- southern usa
- alabama
- suspicion
- cousin
- lawyer
- fish out of water
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joe Pesci
Vincent 'Vinny' Gambini
Marisa Tomei
Mona Lisa Vito
Ralph Macchio
William 'Bill' Gambini
Mitchell Whitfield
Stan Rothenstein
- Fred Gwynne — Judge Chamberlain Haller
- Lane Smith — Jim Trotter III
- Austin Pendleton — John Gibbons
- Bruce McGill — Sheriff Farley
- Maury Chaykin — Sam Tipton
- Paulene Myers — Constance Riley
- Raynor Scheine — Ernie Crane
- James Rebhorn — George Wilbur
- Chris Ellis — J.T.
- Michael Simpson — Neckbrace
- Lou Walker — Grits Cook
- Directed
- Jonathan Lynn
- Written
- Dale Launer
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,913 ratings
- Studio
- Palo Vista Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp., 20th Century Fox, Dale Launer Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
