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!

• Palo Vista Productions
• Peter V. Miller Investment Corp.
• Joe Pesci
• Ralph Macchio
• Marisa Tomei
• Mitchell Whitfield
• Fred Gwynne
• Lane Smith
• Austin Pendleton
• Bruce McGill