A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
February 17, 1989
Original Title:
True Believer
Alternate Titles:
Coupable ressemblance
Justiça Corrupta
Verdetto Finale
トゥルー・ビリーヴァー はぐれ弁護士の執念
Genres:
Crime | Drama
Production Companies:
Columbia Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16 US: R
Runtime: 105
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.
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Art Direction:
Jim Pohl
Co-Producer:
Patrick Crowley
Costume Design:
Erica Edell Phillips
Director:
Joseph Ruben
Director of Photography:
John Lindley
Editor:
George Bowers
Executive Producer:
Peter Rosten
Hairstylist:
Joseph Coscia
Candace Neal
Makeup Artist:
Deborah Figuly
Allen Weisinger
Original Music Composer:
Brad Fiedel
Producer:
Walter F. Parkes
Lawrence Lasker
Production Design:
Lawrence Miller
Set Decoration:
Jim Poynter
Visual Effects Coordinator:
John McLeod
Writer:
Wesley Strick
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