When evidence leads to murder, sometimes it takes a dangerous man to free an innocent one.
True Believer (1989)
Drama
| Crime
DVD, 105 minutes
Country:
USA
Director:
Joseph Ruben
Writer:
Wesley Strick
Producer:
Patrick Crowley
| Lawrence Lasker
| Walter F. Parkes
| Peter Rosten
Music:
Brad Fiedel
Plot outline
A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
Cast
- James Woods
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Margaret Colin
- Yuji Okumoto
- Kurtwood Smith
- Tom Bower
- Miguel Fernandes
- Charles Hallahan
- Sully Diaz
- Misan Kim
- John Snyder
- Luis Guzmán
- Graham Beckel
- Tony Haney
- Joel Polis
- Will Marchetti
- Maureen McVerry
- Abigail Van Alyn
- Deborah Offner
- Thomas Wagner
- Richard Fancy
- Kurt Fuller
- Ginger Rolstad
- Thelton E. Henderson
- Gerry Bamman
- Charles Dean
- Gustave Johnson
- Cab Covay
- Tony Abatemarco
- Ken Grantham
- Ralph Peduto
- Margot Rose
- Jan Michael Shultz
- George Maguire
- David Espinoza
- Conrad Dunn
- Sean O'Brien
- Cully Fredricksen
- Taylor Gilbert
- Peter Anthony Jacobs
- Stu Klitsner
- David Booth
- Peter Fitzsimmons
- Jarrett Sullivan
- Mike Stone
- Chris Jorie
- Darryl Fong
- Woody Harrelson
Plots
- Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mom, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he did not commit. Written by