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True Believer

James Woods (Actor), Robert Downey Jr. (Actor), Joseph Ruben (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 541 ratings
IMDb6.7/10.0
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Genre Crime
Format Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Anamorphic, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dubbed, NTSC, Full Screen, Color See more
Contributor Columbia Pictures, Lawrence Lasker, James Woods, Kurtwood Smith, Robert Downey Jr., Joseph Ruben, Tom Bower, Walter Parkes See more
Language English, French
Runtime 1 hour and 45 minutes

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A spellbinding murder mystery in which a routine case of murder becomes a deadly odyssey for James Woods, a lawyer torn between justice and the law. Robert Downey, Jr. also stars as an idealistic recent law school graduate who journeys to New York to work as a clerk for his idol, Woods, whose inventive tactics in civil rights cases in 1960s and 70s made him one of the country's most respected attorneys.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1, 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Joseph Ruben
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Anamorphic, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dubbed, NTSC, Full Screen, Color
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 45 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 3, 2001
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Kurtwood Smith, Tom Bower
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Portuguese, Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Thai
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Walter Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000056WR2
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 541 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent movie
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
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Loved the movie. It's a drama, the acting in it is superb.
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Big Momma
5.0 out of 5 stars Bought and bought again.
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023
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I may have seen this film in a movie theater. Whether I did or not, I did buy the videocassette. I watched the movie several times over the years, on video. Then, I likely bought the DVD and have that somewhere. Then, I saw it on amazon prime and bought it there for streaming. I've watched it several times over the years on my computer. Not tired of it yet!
I love the grittiness of the street scenes, the wretched office of the main character, the choice to never ever have the characters walk in sunlight, always in the grim weather and under the dull gray sky that hangs over New York City. Over many years, every time I am in New York City, it is just like that! A dull gray palate that has an incredible light show that is called Times Square. And that's about it.
I know that there are characters in the story that are based on real people. I know that there was a muckraking journalist, an idealistic well-educated lawyer who became an activist and worked on cases that were politically controversial, and a Korean man framed for murder. Even without knowing that, this is a powerful film. And as far as I can tell from the production, low-budget!
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BandD
5.0 out of 5 stars James Woods and Robert Downey, Jr. are outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023
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There was nothing I disliked about this movie. Story was extremely interesting, but the actors were truly outstanding. Glad we bought this movie.
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Far Lefkas
4.0 out of 5 stars "A good fight is one y'win!"
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2005
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James Woods is erstwhile civil liberties attorney Eddie Dodd, his idealism long since forsaken for 4th Amendment violation-under-every-bed cynicism, & Rbt. Downey, Jr., is his summer intern (well, autumn intern) Roger Barron. Woods character based loosely on Frisco criminal def. lawyer J. Tony Serra.

Dodd's conscience-bending guilt submits to Roger's yuppie charm, & the two pursue the mysteries of why a young Korean gang member is serving time for murder & now's offed a member of some supremacist cult in prison. Woods's Dodd is light years beyond over the top with this, but an excellent supporting cast (Downey, Jr., ["...so we can get off guilty little pricks!"], Margaret Colin, Miguel Hernandez, & "70s Show"'s Kurtwood Smith as a D.A. with a closet full of diced-up skeletons) & brisk dialog make him seem right @home there. To the paranoid, conspiracy-soaked veteran & witness to the original crime: "Cecil, are you what heroes are made of?" Cecil: "I did two tours in 'Nam."

If you can get past the new twist on the climactic courtroom scene & the veritable litany of continuity issues here, "True Believer" is one of the most watchable flicks I've seen---meaning, I can sit thru the whole thing without once hitting the pause button or pondering my full bladder.

The great scene in Eddie's kitchenette (with the de rigueur Chinese food) is especially instructive. When Downey, Jr.'s, Roger spouts armchair activist rhetoric ("We all think it's a good fight."), Woods's Dodd lets loose with a tirade against bleeding-heart do-goodism that would make Bill O'Reilly cringe.
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Mrscatkinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
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I love movies and this is a good one on raining Monday.
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William Cummings
3.0 out of 5 stars James Woods with a pony tail is worth 3 stars.
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016
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I like both of the actors in the lead roles, and the story was right-on. It was a treat to see Robert Downey Jr. as such a young man, I had forgotten that he was a good addition to any movie at a tender time in his life. Always did like the passion that James Woods brings to the big screen and this installment keys in on his style of character as an attorney who is a liberal that bends the rules when needed, to get the job done. The plot is complex and winds over and under, through and through until the inevitable surprise witness produces the foreseeable happy ending. The knight in shining armor saves the day again. A twist ending would have prompted me to give it a 4 star rating. As it was, 3 stars is good enough.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it! Great!
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2023
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Loved it! Great!
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Amala-bhakta Swami
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Legal Thriller!
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2007
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This movie is by far among the greatest legal thrillers I've seen, not only because the writing and directing are superb, but James Woods' acting performance is nothing short of spectacular. The variations he projects in his character expressions--with so many subtle nuances--make him 100% believable and fetching as that character. And when his sense of right is piqued, he explodes in the most compelling, absorbing, credible way--one which just pulls you another foot deeper into the story, kind of the way quicksand pulls you in: you just can't get out, nor do you want to.

In this story, the Woods character is fighting not only for an innocent man's life, a prisoner doing time, but even more important, he's fighting for his own life--his sense of self-respect, honor, and decency, none of which he feels in his earlier law practice while defending and acquitting sleazeballs whom he knows should be in prison instead wrecking society with their crimes.

I watched this movie a second time the night after I watched it the first time and got even more out of it. Buy it and keep it. It's far batter than most of the John Grisham legal thriller movies.

No question about it: James Woods is one of the most underrated actors today. He performed almost equally as well in "Indightment" the McMartin child abuse case.

I've omitted talking about the plot because you can obtain that from many of the below reviewers.
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U.N.Known
5.0 out of 5 stars Great and trustworthy seller. Good value for money. Good film
Reviewed in Germany on March 28, 2021
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Great film. Great actors. Great price,amazing value for money. And shipping was faster than estimated
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robin power
5.0 out of 5 stars Good movie
Reviewed in Canada on November 9, 2019
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Two of my favorite actors together. This movie is a watch over many times.
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J. Rottweiller Swinburne
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2010
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This is James Woods at his best. Never known to play against type, here Woods puts in a blistering performance as a cynical, burnt-out criminal defence lawyer, once a darling of the civil liberties camp, but now an amoral hack defending drug-dealing scumbags and other skells that no-one else will touch.
For reasons that are never made totally clear - something to do with the arrival from the DA's office of newly-qualified lawyer Robert Downey Jr, who is attached to him as a sort of apprentice - he elects to dig up an old case and try to overturn the watertight conviction of a Korean youth, convicted of murdering a drug dealer in plain view of about six thousand witnesses. The pair of them burrow and ferret away, re-interviewing old witnesses and case officers and gumshoeing around until...
I won't give any more of the plot away here. It doesn't sound any different, the way I've described it, to dozens of other legal procedurals, and in most ways it isn't. But what sets it apart is Woods' performance. The man has screen-presence in bucketloads and by half-way through has you sitting on the edge of your seat, willing him to succeed. At the end I felt I'd seen a top-notch thriller, and really that's all that matters where films like this are concerned. Next to him, Downey (who everyone seems to swoon over as the greatest screen actor since Hurd Hatfield) is as a feather on the breath of God. But then, when Woods is on form, so is everyone else (except Brian Dennehy - see "Best Seller").
Stay in and watch it.
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Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars Hidden Gem
Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2018
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This is a hidden gem. Great actors in early breakthrough performances. Great plot with action, suspense and brains.
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L. Holliday
5.0 out of 5 stars Great film.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2018
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Really liked this film. Great film to add to your collection if you are an RDJ fan.
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