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From the Hip
From the Hip is a 1987 American courtroom comedy-drama film directed by Bob Clark from a screenplay by Clark and David E. Kelley. The film stars Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Ray Walston, and Darren McGavin.
Plot
Fresh out of law school, Robin "Stormy" Weathers 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. During his meeting with client Raymond Torkenson, the president of a bank who intentionally struck banker Phil Ames, Torkenson 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.
More details
| author | David E. Kelley |
|---|---|
| director | Bob Clark |
| editor | Stan Cole |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | 1st amendment bludgeon create defense attorney escalate file first-degree murder law firm law school media frenzy meet morning murder case want win |
| musicBy | Paul Zaza |
| nomination | Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor |
| producer | Bob Clark René Dupont |
| publisher | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group |
| recordedAt | North Carolina |