From the Hip

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From the Hip

PG,

1987,

1h 50m,

Comedy/

Drama

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1,000+ Ratings

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Attorney Robin "Stormy" Weathers (Judd Nelson) engages in some outrageous courtroom antics in order to get a bank president acquitted of assault charges. Stormy's performance is so impressive that he's then promoted to partner in his firm. But his next case is defending Douglas Benoit (John Hurt), a professor who is accused of killing a prostitute with a hammer. Stormy struggles with the case and his belief that Benoit is a raving lunatic, a danger to society and guilty of the murder.

Critics Consensus

From the Hip finds Judd Nelson flexing previously unseen acting muscles, but this legal comedy is too grating to pass the bar.

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

Sep 25, 2021

2.5/4

It's a fairly good film of fits and starts.

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Joe Pollack

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sep 25, 2021

The courtroom shenanigans have absolutely no basis in reality, and while they're occasionally entertaining, they're mostly as overdone and tasteless as the action in Clark's other films.

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Patrick Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Sep 25, 2021

It's such an embarrassingly lame comedy that you could easily imagine some mischievous attorney filing suit -- for defamation of the entire profession.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Apr 3, 2023

3/5

…From the Hip is a wildly problematic film that never tonally matches the light central performance to the serious story…

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Christine Arnold Dolan

Miami Herald

Sep 25, 2021

2.5/4

The story is interesting and the movie is well acted by Elizabeth Perkins, Darren McGavin, Nancy Marchand, Ray Walston, David Alan Grier, and others.

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Draco S

May 23, 2018

RT: ARE YOU COMPLETELY f0#k19G CLUELESS? THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE. p.S. FIX YOUR WEBSITE. i CAN'T SWITCH OUT OF ALL-CAPS ... AND IT'S ONLY YOUR SITE, NOT MY KEYBOARD OR COMPUTER. THANKS.

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Hagrid S

Jul 11, 2017

This was a revisit that I wanted to have for quite some time, as I recalled really enjoying this flick in my youth, and I would have to say that it held up pretty well. Judd Nelson makes a name for himself as a showboating spectacle in court, only to have his fairly stuffy law office saddle him with the most difficult client that they can, who is facing a murder charge. Fun stuff, from the *very* varied career of director Bob Clark.

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Bob Clark

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Judd Nelson

Robin "Stormy" Weathers

Elizabeth Perkins

Jo Ann

John Hurt

Douglas Benoit

Darren McGavin

Craig Duncan

Dan Monahan

Larry

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Synopsis

Attorney Robin "Stormy" Weathers (Judd Nelson) engages in some outrageous courtroom antics in order to get a bank president acquitted of assault charges. Stormy's performance is so impressive that he's then promoted to partner in his firm. But his next case is defending Douglas Benoit (John Hurt), a professor who is accused of killing a prostitute with a hammer. Stormy struggles with the case and his belief that Benoit is a raving lunatic, a danger to society and guilty of the murder.

Director: Bob Clark
Screenwriter: David E. Kelley, David E. Kelley, Bob Clark
Production Co: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 6, 1987, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 6, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.0M
Runtime: 1h 50m

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