True Believer

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.

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Joseph Ruben directed True Believer in 1989. See Joseph Ruben's full filmography, where to start with Joseph Ruben, or where to go after you've seen everything by Joseph Ruben.

True Believer was released in 1989 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 105 minutes.