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Actors: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Kurtwood Smith, Luis Guzmán, Yuji Okumoto
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about True Believer |
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TRUE BELIEVER is a film directed by Joseph Ruben in 1989.
Eddie Dodd is a well-known NYC lawyer who used, in the sixties and the seventies, to accept the cases no other lawyers would take. Now, disillusioned, he's specialized in the drugs cases and is regularly pointing his finger at the abuses of power of the police.
When his new partner Roger Baron urges him to accept the case of Shu Kai Kim, a Korean boy sentenced to life eight years before who's just killed a neo-nazi militant in prison, Eddie Dodd is at first reluctant but he'll soon take an avid interest in the case as it seems that Shu isn't guilty of the first murder he was convicted for. Eddie is persuaded that his client has been framed and is innocent of that crime.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of True Believer |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 80%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- law enforcement gone bad
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- finding out whether someone is really guilty
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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