True Believer
1989 · 105 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 5,704 VOTES · DIR. Joseph Ruben
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,287 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:58 Tier Four. First bed. Come on, move it.
00:09:09 Aren't we surrendering to the drug?
00:12:37 Be a mensch.
00:16:40 I don't venerate drug dealers. To the contrary.
00:22:16 A gang leader gets wasted in front of the tourists.
00:26:09 You've just blown your chance to participate in this case.
00:29:44 No, sir.
00:32:28 Yeah, law offices of Edward J. Dodd.
00:35:23 Joking?
00:39:19 They take those tear-drops very seriously.
00:43:29 never find out what happened in Chinatown.
00:46:57 I'll prosecute anyone who fucks up.
00:50:52 Why did Mr Kim...
00:53:58 all but hand you Shu Kai Kim, a Korean, a foreigner...
00:58:48 - You can't come back here. - We're lawyers, and we're renovating.
01:05:17 Wrong!
01:08:43 It was not an automatic. It had one of those cylinders.
01:12:03 that he murdered Jimmy Chin?
01:16:49 Come on in. We'll talk in the morning. In the meantime, you can get some sleep.
01:21:18 Surveillance terminated."
01:25:24 - Go back to bed. - Come on, talk to me.
01:29:16 - You shot a corpse. I don't give a shit. - Let's snuff this low-life.
01:33:00 If it please the court, the defence calls...
01:36:09 "I just shot a man in Chinatown. People saw me do it."
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,287
Dialogue density12.3 lines / min
First line00:01:58
Final line01:36:09
Production Record
DirectorJoseph Ruben
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes5,704