From the Hip (1987)

Directors

Bob Clark

Cast

Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin

The story

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…

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