joe pesci and marisa tomei and ralph macchio and and fred gwynne be very fine actor who make this movie a total success . joe pesci play cousin vincent vinny gambini and a upstart lawyer from new york who go to alabama to defend billy ( ralph macchio and the karate kid and the outsider ) and his friend from be execute for a murder they do not commit . first and they think they be arrest for shoplifting and instead the clerk be shoot to death . vinny and his fiancée mona lisa vito ( tomei ) go to motel to motel . taste hominy grit for the first time and meet a judge ( gwynne ) who doesn not play around and and deal with his argumentative fiancée . vinny inexperience cause problem and yet when he do get the taste of courtroom drama and he give out his serving of justice to the platter . when the picture of the car track rack his brain and his sudden sense of get the answer get his cousin and friend out of the hot seat . the judge be impress with his work and yet he doesn not agree with his method . a masterpiece of comedy and well do . 5 star .