209 - My Cousin Vinny
Added 2025-10-03 20:31:28 +0000 UTCThe lads hop in their 1964 metallic mint-green Buick Skylarks and get arrested for murder as they cover Jonathan Lynn’s 1992 legal comedy: My Cousin Vinny. Topics include the Era of the Screenplay, the film’s dedication to legal procedure, and the unspeakable cinematic power of having Marisa Tomei talk about tire-tracks.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
My Cousin Vinny. Dir. Jonathan Lynn. 1992.
Abnormal Interviews: “My Cousin Vinny Director Jonathan Lynn” by Nick Farr. March 13th, 2012.
‘WHAT IS A YUTE?’: AN ORAL HISTORY OF ‘MY COUSIN VINNY’ by Andy Greene. Rolling Stone. March 7th, 2022.
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “A Phone Call From The Southern Baptist Correctional Facility” // Written by A.J. Ditty and Tony Ditty // feat. A.J. Ditty as “A.J. Ditty”, Eleanor Philips as “Denise”, and Tony Ditty as “Tony Ditty: Lawyer and A.J.’s Actual Father”
Comments
Hi y'all, I'm from the hills of Mississippi, so about as Southern as it gets. My family and I love this film. There is some condescension, but in a weird way, it feels better than most films about the south. the yanks are the butt of the joke most of the time. and when we are, It feels like they're almost laughing with us than at us and I think that's because most films would just paint us with a very politically broad brush, as trigger happy, death penalty loving wanna be fascists. But this film shows things like the abolitionist protests outside of the prison, showing that we're not all a monolith. That's my experience of the South, there's so many people fighting the good fight here.
Mason Shrader
2025-10-15 13:51:43 +0000 UTCBefore the Irishman, Pesci came out of retirement for, of course, De Niro in The Good Shepherd (2006)
KillaKill
2025-10-12 04:58:27 +0000 UTC
