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True Believer

Name: True Believer
Director: Joseph Ruben
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1989-02-17
Cast: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto, Kurtwood Smith

CrimeDrama

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

James WoodsRobert Downey Jr.Margaret ColinYuji OkumotoKurtwood SmithTom BowerLuis GuzmánGraham BeckelSully DiazWoody HarrelsonMiguel FernandesCharles Hallahan

Director

Joseph Ruben

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