• The film is a pretty straight forward fish-out-of-water comedy elevated by two performances: joe pesci and marisa tomei
  • The supporting actors are solid- the judge, Fred Gwynne, is great as is bruce McGill in a small role. The usually reliable James Rebhorn doesn’t fair as well and struggles with the southern accent
  • It’s reminiscent of 30’s screwball comedies— led by a sassy and intelligent woman
  • Very breezy in pacing and tone
  • Huge and somewhat distracting age discrepancy between pesci 49 and tomei at age 28
  • Repetition of pesci going to jail for being insubordinate gets tired. Same with getting woken up early for various reasons. There’s a line between film form and laziness and I think this is the latter.
  • The film lags in scenes without tomei but in the scenes she’s in there’s such vitality and humor- it’s a wonderful performances and her achievement here is greater than even pesci’s
  • Some odd angle choices by Lynn- tilted for no reasons- doesn’t really mesh with the rest of the rather straight forward choices
  • Smart, sharp dialogue
  • Writing and acting
  • Low end recommend- nowhere near top 10 of 1992