True Believer

True Believer

105 mins | Drama, Crime | Feb. 17, 1989

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.

True Believer

105 mins | Drama, Crime | Feb. 17, 1989

True Believer
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title True Believer
Directors Joseph Ruben
Writers Wesley Strick

Cast

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 Díaz

as Maraquilla Esparza

Woody Harrelson

as Man in Dodd's office

Miguel Fernandes

as Art Esparza

Charles Hallahan

as Vincent Dennehy

John Snyder

as Chuckie Loeder

Joel Polis

as Dean Rabin

Deborah Offner

as Laura Gayley

Thomas Wagner

as Tommy

Richard Fancy

as Ballistics Expert

Kurt Fuller

as George Ballistics

Ginger Rolstad

as Translator

Gerry Bamman

as Brian Nevins