About this Event
Saturday, January 9th – 7:30 PM – SMALL THEATER
Q&A with screenwriter & producer Dale Launer:
MY COUSIN VINNY (1992, 20th Century Fox / Criterion Pictures, 119 min. Dir. Jonathan Lynn).
Please join us for a special screening of the beloved courtroom comedy MY COUSIN VINNY, followed by an in-person conversation with screenwriter and producer Dale Launer, the comic genius behind DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, RUTHLESS PEOPLE and BLIND DATE! Joe Pesci stars as Vinny Gambini, a Brooklyn personal injury lawyer defending his cousin and the cousin’s best friend on a charge of M**der in Alabama – with the help of Vinny’s brash and quick-thinking fiancée Mona Lisa Vito, an unforgettable Marisa Tomei (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role.) Launer’s script is widely hailed by legal experts as one of the best – and funniest – depictions of real courtroom procedures ever written. Vinny: Your Honor, may I have permission to treat Ms. Vito as a hostile witness? Mona Lisa: You think I’m hostile now, wait ‘til you see me tonight.
Discussion following screening with screenwriter & producer Dale Launer, who has kindly traveled from his home in Los Angeles area to Santa Cruz for this special event!
Ticket Price: $10 advance / $15 door.
Event venue & nearby stays
The 418 Project, 155 S River Street, Santa Cruz, United States
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