The read
Scores higher than 91% of the 1,486 1990s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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!
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Metacritic68/100
1,975 audience votes
Key crew
- Jonathan LynnDirector
- Dale LaunerScreenplay
- Randy EdelmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ralph MacchioBill Gambini
- Joe PesciVinny Gambini
- Marisa TomeiMona Lisa Vito
- Mitchell WhitfieldStan Rothenstein
- Fred GwynneJudge Chamberlain Haller
- Lane SmithJim Trotter III
- Austin PendletonJohn Gibbons
- Bruce McGillSheriff Farley
- Maury ChaykinSam Tipton
- Paulene MyersConstance Riley
- Raynor ScheineErnie Crane
- James RebhornGeorge Wilbur
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