Originally posted by jhe888: It is an excellent movie. It is much more realistic than most movies that include courtroom scenes, so it doesn't make lawyers cringe.
THIS! I HATE lawyer movies or movies about trials (or shows for that matter). But this movie I can watch every time and I do use parts of it from time to time in trial during voir dire or closing argument.
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June 14, 2018, 12:04 PM
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Definitely a great flick. And Fred's last film. He passed away less than a year later. But he went out on top of his game, capping a forty year career that was certainly more diverse than just "Herman Munster".
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June 14, 2018, 02:23 PM
Sailor1911
So many great scenes in that flick. But, the stuttering public defender was where I spit out my Cocoa Puffs.
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June 14, 2018, 02:55 PM
PASig
My Dad has this sweatshirt, he loves that movie:
June 14, 2018, 03:52 PM
jhe888
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Originally posted by oddball:
A while back, I read that attorneys considered My Cousin Vinny to be the most realistic film in regards to the inside of a courtroom, particularly the interaction between Pesci and Gwynne.
It is true. Most movies and show about courtroom stuff are so unrealistic that they are unwatchable for lawyers. Scripts have the lawyers make bullshit objections, and allow absolutely inadmissible evidence in without a peep, just as an example. This movie mostly gets that stuff right, and is still an entertaining movie.
Even though most days in the courtroom are dry as burnt toast and boring. It is hard to make a lot of testimony in civil trials very interesting.
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June 14, 2018, 03:58 PM
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A number of advocacy teachers I work with use the cross of the old lady as a prime example of perception impeachment.
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June 14, 2018, 08:26 PM
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June 14, 2018, 08:39 PM
comet24
Great movie. Maybe the funniest I have ever seen.
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June 15, 2018, 06:04 AM
PeteF
No one?
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June 15, 2018, 06:38 AM
RichN
Instant grits?
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June 15, 2018, 08:48 AM
YellowJacket
How could it take you five minutes to cook your grits, when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?
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June 16, 2018, 12:34 AM
PASig
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Originally posted by PeteF: No one?
"Is it possible the 2 yutes" "The 2 what?"
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June 16, 2018, 06:50 AM
MikeGLI
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Originally posted by YellowJacket: How could it take you five minutes to cook your grits, when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?
Im a fast cook I guess.
I’m sorry, I was all the way over here, did you just say you’re a fast cook and that’s it?!
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August 25, 2024, 07:29 PM
trapper189
Raising the dead here, but my wife just turned the TV on in the other room and the first two words I heard were “magic grits”.
August 29, 2024, 08:19 AM
Captain Morgan
The jail scene is real good. This is where Gambini first meets Stan while Billy sleeps.
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August 29, 2024, 06:50 PM
mark123
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Originally posted by smschulz:
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Originally posted by ss9961:
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Originally posted by mark60: One of the few movies I can watch over and over again and not just because I fell in love with Marisa Tomei the first time I saw it.
Me too. And she won an Oscuh.
I always had a crush on her too.
Once in 1993 or 1994, I hung out with some friends at the Pittsburgh Airport because one of them was an extra in a movie with Marissa Tomei. When they were shooting her scene, she had to run through the airport and we said "Hey, we get to see Marissa Tomei in person."
Nope, she had a double do the running.
August 31, 2024, 04:33 PM
wingfoot
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Originally posted by YellowJacket: one more gem... the stuttering lawyer played by Austin Pendleton.
Early in the movie in the police line up, there is a really tall big guy, that’s a good friend of mine, Big Jim Stancil.
September 04, 2024, 07:46 PM
jljones
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Originally posted by Loswsmith:
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Originally posted by jhe888: It is an excellent movie. It is much more realistic than most movies that include courtroom scenes, so it doesn't make lawyers cringe.
THIS! I HATE lawyer movies or movies about trials (or shows for that matter). But this movie I can watch every time and I do use parts of it from time to time in trial during voir dire or closing argument.
Just like I hate 99 percent of cop shows. “The Wire” being the notable exception that is about right.
