Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

• DirectorJonathan Lynn
• Release13 March 1992
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration2h
• Budget$11,000,000
• Revenue$64,088,552
• Rate
  

  7.5
  1677 reviews
• Productions

  Palo Vista Productions, Peter V. Miller Investment Corp., 20th Century Fox, Dale Launer Production