My Cousin Vinny

In the movie My Cousin Vinny, Vinny Gambini sets on a journey to prove his cousin and his friend’s innocence of a murder case. Bill and Stan are on a road trip to California to the University of California, Los Angeles, where they received a scholarship to attend the university. On the way there they stopped at a convenient store to buy some necessities for the trip. Their hands were full of food and drinks, when Bill put the can of tuna in his jacket because there was no way he could carry any more food. Once they paid for their snacks they were back on the road. Bill realizes he didn’t pay for the can of tuna and noticed a sheriff car following them. The lights went off and the sheriff pulled them over. They were taken to the station for…

After watching "My Cousin Vinny", viewers understand that Billy Gambini and Stan Rothenstein accidentally shoplifted a can of tuna while stopping at a convenience store. After they leave the store, the clerk is shot and killed, and Billy and Stan are arrested in connection with the murder. Due to circumstantial evidence and a confession to shoplifting misconstrued as one to the shooting, Billy is charged with murder, and Stan is charged as an accessory. The pair call Billy's mother, who tells…

Koral Zazueta PSCI 231 Prompt 1 Court Proceedings in My Cousin Vinny The film My Cousin Vinny is a relatively accurate representation of criminal court proceedings. However, the jury selection process was not explicitly shown in the film. Furthermore, the film does not emphasize much of the pre-trial motions, the preponderance of evidence, or how the evidence was collected. The process of discovering relevant facts concerning the case was also deemphasized. The movie demonstrated details of the…

Growing up, I have seen My Cousin Vinny on a few different occasions. This time, watching the film while learning about business law gave me a new perspective on the film and its implications on the American legal system. One of the main concepts that stuck out to me was that Vinny was able to transform from a seemingly unsuccessful law school graduate into a case-winning lawyer. At the beginning of the film, I, much like the characters in the film, doubted Vinny’s abilities to represent Bill…

I have always heard good things about the film “My Cousin Vinny”, but never got around to watching it. The film follows the experiences of two young men mistaken for murderers in fictional Beechum County, Alabama. When the boys, Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stan Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield), discover that they weren’t being held for theft of a tuna can, but instead for murder, they anxiously call their families for help. The family employs Bill’s cousin, Vinny (Joe Peschi), a New York…

deal with problems that affect us on a personal level. In my four years of college, I have definitely had my fair share of setbacks through athletics and my living arrangements at Saint Peter’s University. My freshman year, I came from a slow, quiet suburban childhood into the fast and nonstop environment of Jersey City. The following year, I tried to take on more responsibility by renting a house near campus with my teammates, but I ended up stuck in a house with people who persistently…

Aaron Torres Gonzalez Professor Burns Bus 117 08/01/2017 My Cousin Vinny “My Cousin Vinny” begins with two students who are from New York deciding to road trip all the way to go to UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) where they will be attending school. However on their way to their future school they stop at a gas station and then are later arrested for the murder of the convenience store clerk. They are mistaken for somebody else who committed the crime but are an example of bad…

In the film My Cousin Vinny, intercultural communication is exemplified throughout. The film presents characters from New York who find themselves in the southern state of Alabama, where they display differences within their cultural values, norms, and communication patterns including certain verbal and nonverbal codes. Therefore, these intercultural communication components come to reveal the way the two different cultures represented in the film by the different characters view themselves and…

My cousin Vinny is a film about two best friends, Bill Gambini and Stanley Rothenstein, whom have just being awarded scholarships to UCLA. Before the semester starts the boys decide that they want to drive through the south, once they arrived in Alabama they decide to stop at a convenience store to pick up some snacks. Not soon after they check out and leave the store they are pulled over and arrested for what they believe is shoplifting, however; eventually when they are at the police station…

As in right now she knows what she likes and knows that she’s a girl. She knows what type of things girls are supposed to like in this society. She is currently going through psychosocial development. Whereas she knows why her three-year-old cousin behaves more like a little kid. She knows kids act different depending on their age. Also, how she did not have her shoes while being inside and she knew while being outside she had to put on her shoes. Another example of identity development she is…