Synopsis
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 WoodsEddie Dodd
- Robert Downey Jr.Roger Baron
- Margaret ColinKitty Greer
- Yuji OkumotoShu Kai Kim
- Kurtwood SmithRobert Reynard
- Tom BowerCecil Skell
- Luis GuzmánOrtega
- Graham BeckelSklaroff
- Sully DíazMaraquilla Esparza
- Woody HarrelsonMan in Dodd's office
Recommandations
- 80
Washington Post
James Woods, a bushy-tailed attorney, goes the distance with the powers that be and makes "True Believer" a legal blast. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The case involves lots of flaws in the original trial: unreliable eyewitnesses, time discrepancies, conflicts of interest. In other hands, this material might seem familiar, but Woods puts a spin on it, an intensity that makes it feel important - to him, and therefore to us. - 70
The New York Times
The film's view of Eddie Dodd is occasionally on the facile side, but Mr. Woods's performance is crackling and passionate enough to give the character depth despite that; it's also laced with snappish, self-mocking humor that Mr. Woods delivers particularly well. This performance is so razor-sharp that Eddie can be seen coming alive with each little triumph, reveling in each little maneuver and taking each little disappointment terribly hard. His enthusiasm is irresistible. - 60
Washington Post
True Believer is a thriller about moral rejuvenation, and there's not much wrong with it that another actor in the lead wouldn't cure. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Ruben’s stylistic devices, his high angle shots and his black-and-white recountings of courtroom testimony, become just so much cinematic corpse-rouging.
