Jaded lawyer Eddie Dodd, a well-regarded activist in the 1960s whose moment has long passed, now smokes marijuana and defends drug dealers who pay in cash. But later he becomes transformed by taking on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man who was imprisoned for a gang-related murder.
18 September 1941, Independence, Kansas, USA
22 December 1949, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
26 May 1958, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 December 1946, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
20 April 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 November 1933, San Francisco, California, USA
2 August 1943, Evanston, Illinois, USA
9 March 1942, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
18 April 1947, Vernal, Utah, USA
30 January 1943, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
17 July 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3 October 1951, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 July 1943, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
February 27, 2008
Woods clearly relishes his chance to display a wide range of emotions within his patented maverick persona, and Downey also acquits himself well in a much less challenging role.
January 01, 2000
When I see Woods on the screen in the first shot of a movie I sort of smile to myself because I know that something strange and offbeat and maybe even inspired is about to happen.
January 01, 2000
What counts in Believer is not what happens but how. This is as good a how as any.
April 16, 2009
Woods' angry energy is clarifying as well as terrifying, and when he unleashes it (usually without warning), the effect is to focus our attention where it belongs, not on a suspense story but on the mysteries of human behavior.
January 01, 2000
Ruben relies too heavily on Woods' whirring turbines to power his scenes.
January 01, 2000
Wesley Strick gave them a good script and they made a good, solid crime mystery.
December 15, 2003
One of the best courtroom dramas ever made, and a movie that almost nobody knows about. A terrific picture.
August 28, 2004
Really clicks as a modern day morality play.
January 26, 2006
A riveting legal drama.
February 27, 2008
Woods, as ever, is wired for a fight -- in or outside the courtroom. It's all Downey Jr can do to hold him back.
