True Believer (1989)
- Directed by
- Joseph Ruben
- Genre
- drama film, prison film, crime film, trial film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 121 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A burnt-out but brilliant defense attorney takes on a seemingly hopeless case. He works to free a young Korean American man who was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to death row. The film follows the legal fight and the team's efforts to uncover the truth.
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What happens
True Believer (also released as Fighting Justice) is a 1989 American neo noir 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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