Bad Boston Accents
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Bad Boston Accents

Wahtch your mouth! Which character has the worst Boston accent?

rank title points votes your vote
1 Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks), Catch Me If You Can
Hanks adopts a criminally bad Boston accent in this flick, in which he's constantly bemoaning his foe's ability to "fahdge" checks. 41 101
2 Christine Cotter (Diane Lane), The Perfect Storm
<p>Lane fails to capture Gloucester dialect, sounding more like a character in a dinner theater production of Our Town. </p> 27 71
3 Ben (Jimmy Fallon), Fever Pitch
<p>Fallon's baseball fan would drop the occasional "Sahx" during one of his rants. Mostly, he was just Jimmy Fallon. </p> 21 79
4 Captain Ellerby (Alec Baldwin), The Departed
<p>Amid Mark Wahlberg and Martin Sheen's authentic accents, Baldwin just seems to be phoning it in with his "go f--- yahself"s. </p> 15 75
5 Sean McGuire (Robin Williams), Good Will Hunting
<p>Unlike Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Williams here sounds like a cross between a Kennedy and a Maine lobster fisherman. </p> 14 74
6 Sam Wilder (Joe Pesci), With Honors
<p>Pesci's wacky bum sounds a lot like Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas, and pretty much every other Pesci role.</p> 7 57
7 Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) and Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), Mystic River
<p>Penn and Robbins' performances anchor this drama, but their over-the-top accents drag the whole production down. </p> 7 73
8 Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet), Little Children
<p>Nothing sets Winslet's character apart vocally from her Golden Globe-winning turn as a Connecticut housewife in Revolutionary Road. </p> 2 58