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True Believer

1989 · 105 min

Crime, Drama

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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Appeals to viewers who enjoy morally grounded courtroom dramas about compromised professionals rediscovering their purpose through a difficult fight for justice.

Tone
tense, bleak, uplifting
Payoff
vindication, catharsis
Pacing
steady
Intensity
moderate
Structure
linear
Themes
justice, wrongful conviction, professional redemption, mentorship, institutional corruption
Setting
late twentieth-century, urban law offices, courtrooms, and detention facilities

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