True Believer (1989 film)
1989 film by Joseph Ruben / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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True Believer (also released as Fighting Justice) is a 1989 American courtroom drama directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Wesley Strick, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith.
True Believer | |
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Directed by | Joseph Ruben |
Written by | Wesley Strick |
Produced by | Lawrence Lasker Walter F. Parkes |
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Cinematography | John W. Lindley |
Edited by | George Bowers |
Music by | Brad Fiedel |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $8.7 million[2] |
The film is loosely based on an investigative series of articles written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist K. W. Lee on the wrongful conviction of immigrant Chol Soo Lee for a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gangland murder.[3] The news coverage led to a new trial, eventual acquittal and release of the prisoner from San Quentin's Death Row. Strick based the character of Eddie Dodd on real-life Bay Area defense attorney Tony Serra.[4]