From the Hip 1987 Online Full Movie

From the Hip: A Legal Drama Movie Experience

Fresh out of law school, Robin “Stormy” Weathers (Judd Nelson) cannot stand the tedium of case filing and research. Desperately wanting to “practice law” and go to trial, one morning he intentionally withholds the fact that a trial is scheduled to begin that very afternoon to compel his superiors to let him try the case because he is the only one familiar with the facts of the case.

A Bold Legal Move

During his meeting with the client (the president of a bank who intentionally struck another banker), the banker declares the “simple assault case” to be a no-winner (explaining that he hits people all the time), but wants the one-day trial to somehow be stretched to three days to run up the other banker’s court fees.

A Legal Frenzy

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 bank’s business elsewhere.

Legal Brilliance Revealed

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. 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.

An Unexpected Twist

In an act of unfair retaliation, Weathers is assigned to be lead defense counsel in a first-degree murder case involving university professor Douglas Benoit (John Hurt) who is almost certainly guilty of bludgeoning a prostitute to death with the claw of a hammer. Weathers takes the case and his loud and odd courtroom behavior soon amazes the judge, the spectators and sometimes embarrasses his girlfriend Jo Ann (Elizabeth Perkins).

Moral Dilemmas in the Courtroom

Determined to impress his employers by winning a verdict of not guilty, no matter what, his courtroom antics soon visibly gain even the jury’s favor and raise the likelihood of acquittal. Weathers becomes conflicted between his sense of duty and ethics and his moral obligation to see Benoit pay for his crime.

Despite the possibility of being disbarred, he decides to antagonize Benoit into a confession on the stand.

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