# True Believer (1989)

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**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Joseph Ruben
**Written by**: Wesley Strick
**Starring**: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto, Kurtwood Smith, Tom Bower

> *Someone got away with murder...until now.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You defend lowlifes for cash in L.A. then a Korean mom hands you her son’s wrongful-conviction file and a starry-eyed rookie insists you’re his moral compass. The case smells like framed evidence and Eddie’s cynical armor starts to crack. Joseph Ruben stages justice as a back-alley chess match where every pawn knows the rules no longer apply.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw

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