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...Pesci is Vinny, an amateur New York lawyer who travels with his fiance to rural South Carolina to defend two alleged murderers. Someone has shot Jimmy Willis, and the local police believe this someone to be Vinny's cousin Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and his college buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield). Some local eyewitnesses mistakenly identify them--in classic television sitcom fashion--effectively destroying their thus far innocent road trip to California...

Author: By Mark Zelanko, | Title: Pesci in My Cousin Vinny | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

Throughout, the Brooklyn brashness of Pesci and his fiance, Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) contrasts with the hokey lifestyle of the local folk. Pesci and Vito are foreigners here, as evidenced by their black clothing, ample gold jewelry, and paucity of Southern charm. But the film's humor and action become engrossing only in its final third, at the trial...

Author: By Mark Zelanko, | Title: Pesci in My Cousin Vinny | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

Sunday: Raging Bull with Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty, at 3:15, 7:40 p.m. King of Comedy with Robert DeNiro, Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

Harvard, lacking size, had shuttled many of its forwards between the "A" and "B" sides. The prop position, especially, was undermanned. Vito Sperduto and Matteo Pesci played in the B-side match until the heat and cramps ground them down...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: M. Ruggers 2nd in Daytona Beach Bowl | 4/2/1991 | See Source »

...clothes on anybody. Sickening"). His excitement wanes with the daylight, however, all the more so since most of the neighbors on his affluent block have also gone away for the holidays. What most scares a child? The bogeyman, of course, and Hughes supplies two comical would-be burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), one of whom has posed as a policeman to find out when the family would be gone. By the time they arrive, Kevin has decided that he is too old to be afraid, and he has loaded the house with enough booby traps to stop an army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Home Alone Breaks Away | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

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