true believer

Director: joseph ruben

Actor: james woods,robert downey jr.,margaret colin,yuji okumoto

Data Published: Fri Feb 17 1989

Genres: Crime,Drama

Key Words: lawyer,reference to the black panthers,defense lawyer,prison gang,neo noir

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098524/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Believer_(1989_film)

Description: True Believer is a movie starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., and Margaret Colin. A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder...

Plot: Eddie Dodd is a burnt-out attorney who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Roger Baron is an idealistic young legal clerk, fresh out of law school, who encourages Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man who was imprisoned for a gang-related murder and has now killed a fellow inmate in self-defense. Kim's mother believes her son was wrongfully accused in the gang-related murder. Dodd and Baron's investigation leads to a conspiracy among the district attorney, a police informant, and several police officers.[3]