Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior.
True Believer
Someone got away with murder...until now.
1989 · 1h 45m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Joseph Ruben
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Joseph Ruben Director
- James Woods as Eddie Dodd
- Robert Downey Jr. as Roger Baron
- Margaret Colin as Kitty Greer
- Yuji Okumoto as Shu Kai Kim
- Kurtwood Smith as Robert Reynard
- Tom Bower as Cecil Skell
- Luis Guzmán as Ortega
- Graham Beckel as Sklaroff
- Sully Diaz as Maraquilla Esparza
- Woody Harrelson as Man in Dodd's office
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
When I see Woods on the screen in the first shot of a movie I sort of smile to myself because I know that something strange and offbeat and maybe even inspired is about to happen.
Ruben relies too heavily on Woods' whirring turbines to power his scenes.
What counts in Believer is not what happens but how. This is as good a how as any.
A riveting legal drama.
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