True Believer
Reviewed in Issue 50 (July 2001) of Widescreen Review
| Studio | Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment |
| Catalog Number | 05849 |
| MPAA Rating | R |
| Rating Reason | NA |
| Retail Price | $19.95 |
| DVD Type | Dual Side, Single Layer (DVD10) |
| Running Time | 108 |
| Release Date | 04/03/01 |
| Theatrical Year | 1988 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Joseph Ruben |
| Screenplay | Subscribers only |
| Story | Subscribers only |
| Music | Subscribers only |
| Cinematography | Subscribers only |
| Stars | James Woods, Robert Downey, Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto & Kurtwood Smith |
| Aspect Ratio | Subscribers only |
| Measured Ratio | Subscribers only |
| DVD Soundtrack | Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround |
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Subscribe FreeOnce a headline-making 1960s-era civil rights attorney, Eddie Dodd (Woods) now makes his living defending two-bit drug dealers. And with stars in his eyes, idealistic young attorney Roger Baron (Downey) comes to New York, a True Believer, ready to fight injustice alongside Dodd. Disillusion sets in early, however, when Eddie balks at defending convict Shu Kai Kim (Okumoto), a young man charged with murdering a fellow inmate. Of course, Eddie relents (after listening to a little Hendrix and smoking a joint) and decides to look into the case. Soon, he and Roger are convinced that not only is Kim innocent of this crime, he most likely didn
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