Someone got away with murder...until now.
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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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- James WoodsEddie Dodd
- Robert Downey Jr.Roger Baron
- Margaret ColinKitty Greer
- Yuji OkumotoShu Kai Kim
- Kurtwood SmithRobert Reynard
- Tom BowerCecil Skell
- Luis GuzmánOrtega
- Graham BeckelSklaroff
- Sully DiazMaraquilla Esparza
- Woody HarrelsonMan in Dodd's office
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- Joseph RubenDirector
- Wesley StrickWriter
- John LindleyDirector of Photography
- Brad FiedelOriginal Music Composer
- George BowersEditor
- Walter F. ParkesProducer
- Lawrence LaskerProducer
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