From the Hip (film)

From the Hip, is a 1987 courtroom dramedy film directed by Bob Clark from a screenplay by Bob Clark and David E. Kelley. The film stars Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt and Beatrice Winde.

Weathers prolongs the case by creating a 1st Amendment constitutional challenge as to the admissibility of the word asshole. Escalating the case into a media frenzy, the senior partners of the law firm are embarrassed by Weathers behavior and unconventional methods and try to fire him. The client retaliates on Weathers behalf threatening to take the banks business elsewhere. Weathers appears to be crafty and intuitive, but in reality, had conspired with the other attorney a friend of his to stage a brilliant legal engagement to make themselves look good. Almost like a gameshow, Weathers wins the trial and in doing so attracts a plethora of new clients to the firm which skyrockets him to be a junior partner.In an act of unfair retaliation, Weathers is assigned to be lead defense counsel in a firstdegree murder case involving a university professor Benoit who is almost certainly guilty of bludgeoning a prostitute to death with the claw of a hammer. Benoit wanted Weathers because he saw him in the previous case. Weathers takes the case and his loud and odd courtroom behavior soon amazes the judge, the spectators and sometimes embarrasses his girlfriend. Determined to impress his employers by winning a verdict of not guilty, no matter what, his courtroom antics soon visibly gain even the jurys favor and raise the likelihood of acquittal. ........

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