True Believer (1989)
1h 45m
Running Time
February 17, 1989Release Date
True Believer (1989)
1h 45m
Running Time
February 17, 1989Release Date
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Plot.
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 mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
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Cast & Crew.
James Woods
Eddie Dodd
Robert Downey Jr.
Roger Baron
Margaret Colin
Kitty Greer
Yuji Okumoto
Shu Kai Kim
Kurtwood Smith
Robert Reynard
Tom Bower
Cecil Skell
Luis Guzmán
Ortega
Graham Beckel
Sklaroff
Sully Diaz
Maraquilla Esparza
Woody Harrelson
Man in Dodd's office
Miguel Fernandes
Art Esparza
Charles Hallahan
Vincent Dennehy
John Snyder
Chuckie Loeder
Joel Polis
Dean Rabin
Deborah Offner
Laura Gayley
Thomas Wagner
Tommy
Richard Fancy
Ballistics Expert
Kurt Fuller
George Ballistics
Karen Rea
CastingDirector
Ginger Rolstad
Translator
Gerry Bamman
Brian Nevins
Joseph Ruben
Director
Walter F. Parkes
Producer
Wesley Strick
Writer
Lawrence Lasker
Producer
John Lindley
Director of Photography
Lawrence Miller
Production Design
Patrick Crowley
Co-Producer
Erica Edell Phillips
Costume Design
John McLeod
Visual Effects Coordinator
George Bowers
Editor
Peter Rosten
Executive Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 17, 1989
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 45m
Content RatingR
Filming LocationsSan Francisco · New York City · California, United States
Genres
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Wiki.
True Believer (also released as Fighting Justice) is a 1989 American courtroom drama directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Wesley Strick, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith.
The film is loosely based on an investigative series of articles written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist K. W. Lee on the wrongful conviction of immigrant Chol Soo Lee for a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gangland murder. The news coverage led to a new trial, eventual acquittal and release of the prisoner from San Quentin's Death Row. Strick based the character of Eddie Dodd on real-life Bay Area defense attorney Tony Serra.
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