True Believer

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron…

• Director: Joseph Ruben
• Genre:Crime / Drama
• Runtime:108 minutes

Cast

James Woods : Eddie Dodd
Robert Downey Jr.: Roger Baron
Margaret Colin : Kitty Greer
Yuji Okumoto : Shu Kai Kim
Kurtwood Smith : Robert Reynard

As the movie begins, the film stars James Woods as burnt-out attorney Eddie Dodd, who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. He defends his practice by describing himself as on the cutting edge of civil liberties law. The matter of all his clients being guilty hold no importance.[1]

Robert Downey Jr. plays Roger Baron, an idealistic young legal clerk fresh out of law school who encourages Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man, played by Yuji Okumoto, who has been imprisoned for a gang-related murder. Kim’s mother believes her son was wrongfully accused. There is also a private investigator who still clings to her faith in Dodd. One of the key witnesses is Cecil Skell (Tom Bower), a Vietnam vet, now a patient in a mental hospital. Read more

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