Did Mr. Anderson expect his wife to stick around after introducing Kimberly's essay as exhibit A.
Great movie...all the threads speak for themselves. The tears at the end signify that se got everything she wanted but she has nothing.
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My point was that I don't understand why he would even think about using that essay as evidence. Wouldn't he be afraid that once that gets out, Mrs. Anderson would get pissed and tell everyone that he made her dress up in the school skirt and recite the essay? That would make him look 100% guilty.
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Even if she'd read it in the sexy way, it wouldn't have helped his case (and it took a lot of suspension of disbelief to believe the judge would have told her to) I doubt - it doesn't prove that he didn't touch the girls; and him bringing it up at all made him look like he thought about her in terms of sexiness, not as a student.
shareMr Nickles(?) explained this - their theory was that Kimberly had a crush on Mr Anderson (?) and so when he fired her from the role of "Anne Frank" she was humiliated and heart broken at not being able to spend so much time with him, and so wanted to get revenge by making false sexual harrasment claims against him. Her reading the essay in a sexy voice (like how she did in class) would have helped make this point believable because it would look like she had written the essay to try and seduce Mr Anderson (?), proving that she fancied him and therefore proving their point. If that makes sense - I think I phrased it badly. It's late and I'm tired, lol =)
shareHis lawyer was a complete idiot who gave him bad council. I doubt Anderson cooked up that little scheme entirely on his own. Rather it was just another of the lawyer's blunders, followed by his master plan to use a ploy he saw in a movie as a legal stragety. Most likely Anderson simply told him what happened among one of their private conversations and the boy lawyer convinced him to let him take it from there.
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