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Mona Lisa (Marisa Tomei) disagrees with Vinny's (Joe Pesci) decision to go deer hunting with the D.A.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick Southern town, at first it looks like no big deal. Then they are informed that they are accused of murder. Penniless and without a single friend in the area, Bill decides to call his goofy cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who has somehow recently become a lawyer. Full of family feeling and bravado, Vinny, who has never tried a criminal case in his short life as a lawyer, rides south to defend his trusting relative. He's an expert motormouth and street-level logician from the wilder reaches of metropolitan New York, complete with a thick accent and the attitude to go with it. Otherwise, he's much less well qualified than your average public defender. When he arrives on the scene with his equally brassy girlfriend Lisa (Marisa Tomei), Bill is fairly sure he's going to be sentenced to death. His buddy Stan is even less confident of his legal representative, if that's possible, and the first thing Vinny has to do is to regain the consent of his clients to represent them. The local judge doesn't seem any too sympathetic to Vinny's verbal shenanigans either, and even the most optimistic supporter of the boys would begin to have doubts at this point -- and Vinny's no exception. With the insistent moral encouragement of his girlfriend, Vinny somehow accomplishes the impossible and wins grudging (if very irritated) respect from all concerned, for once studying as if his life depended on it.

CREDITS:
TM & © Fox (1992)
Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Joe Pesci, Lane Smith, Marisa Tomei
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Producers: Paul Schiff, Dale Launer
Screenwriter: Dale Launer

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Transcript
00:00So, we got some case ahead of us here, huh?
00:03Oh, yeah.
00:04How do you feel about it?
00:06Oh, well, I'd like to have a murder weapon.
00:10But other than that, I feel pretty good.
00:14You do?
00:15Oh, yeah.
00:18Hey, what are you doing this afternoon?
00:21You going hunting?
00:23That's right.
00:24Why are you going hunting? Shouldn't you be out preparing for court?
00:27I was thinking last night.
00:30If only I knew what he knows, you know?
00:32If he'd let me look at his files.
00:34Oh, boy.
00:36Well, I don't get it.
00:37What is getting to trot his files have anything to do with hunting?
00:40Well, you know, two guys out in the woods, guns, on the hunt.
00:45It's a bonding thing, you know?
00:47Show him I'm one of the boys.
00:49He's not going to let me look at his files,
00:50but, you know, maybe he'll relax enough to drop his guard
00:53so that I can finesse a little information out of him.
00:58What am I going to wear?
00:58What are you going to hunt?
01:01I don't know.
01:01He's got a lot of stuffed heads in his office.
01:05Heads?
01:07What kind of heads?
01:08I don't know.
01:09He's got a boar, a bear, a couple of deer.
01:11Whoa.
01:12You're going to shoot a deer?
01:15I don't know.
01:16I suppose.
01:17I mean, I'm a man's man.
01:18I could go deer hunting.
01:19A sweet, innocent, harmless, leaf-eating, doe-eyed little deer.
01:25Hey, Lisa, I'm not going to go out there just to wimp out, you know?
01:29I mean, the guy will lose respect for me.
01:31Would you rather have that?
01:32What about these pants I got on?
01:41You think they're okay?
01:44Oh!
01:44Imagine you're a deer.
01:50You're prancing along.
01:51You get thirsty.
01:53You spot a little brook.
01:55You put your little deer lips down to the cool, clear water.
01:59Bam!
02:00A fucking bullet rips off part of your head.
02:02Your brains are laying on the ground in little blood in pieces.
02:06Now I ask you,
02:07would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?
02:14A fucking bullet rips off part of your head.

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