Rope Art

Zealot States Attorney prosecutes an erotic performance artist for obscenity touching off a First Amendment Court battle

A lower ranking States Attorney, Martin Jensen (John Walters), wants to move up, so he begins to take direction from a Conservative political power broker, Jack Brown (Greg Schroeder. They go after the usual; titty bar girls, street hookers, but Jack wants bigger headlines, and goes after Thomas Yanari (Alan Mor), a bondage performance artist. Jensen's wife Carrie (Michah West) is a bored part time lawyer, who gets her kicks reading her husband's briefs and looking up some of the sleaze he busts. She takes a particular interests in the handsome Yanari, and soon is involved in his art as well as his defense.
martin quickly run afoul of his superiors who support the Liberal candidate Bob Krause (Gianni Russo of Godfather I&II, Andy Given Sunday, Striptease, and Rush Hour). Jensen eventually learns of his wife's sordid affair with Thomas Yanari which sets the smut throwing and back stabbing into full motion. The trial proceeds in a tense political and social climate.