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True Believer
Summary: A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 8,742,750
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