True Believer (also released as Fighting Justice ) is a 1989 American courtroom play written by Wesley Strick, directed by Joseph Ruben, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey, Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith.
The film is loosely based on a series of investigative articles written by Pulitzer Prize-nominee nominee K. W. Lee for the belief of immigrant Chol Soo Lee for the 1971 gangland murder in San Francisco Chinatown. News coverage leads to a new trial, finally the release and release of prisoners from San Quentin's Death Row. Screenwriter Wesley Strick based Eddie Dodd's character on the real Bay Area defense lawyer, Tony Serra.
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Plot
Eddie Dodd is an all-out lawyer who leaves civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Roger Baron was an idealistic young lawyer, freshly graduated from law school, who encouraged Dodd to deal with the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man who was jailed for gang-related murders and has now killed a prisoner in his own right. -defense. Kim's mother believes her son has been wrongly accused of murder associated with the gang. The investigation of Dodd and Baron led to a conspiracy between district attorneys, police informants, and several police officers.
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Cast
Reception
The Strick Scenario was nominated for Edgar's 1990 Award for Best Mystery Movement. Film critic Roger Ebert praised Woods' performance for being "hypnotically viewable".
At the time of the release of True Believer ', K.W. Lee told Charleston Gazette he enjoyed the film "as fictional... but that's not the real picture, they've really preceded the Asian struggle."
True Believer is popular to inspire the spin-off television series, Eddie Dodd , starring Treat Williams in the title race.
References
External links
- True Believer on IMDb
- True Believer in Box Office Mojo
- True Believer at Rotten Tomatoes
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