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True Colors (1991)

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Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 7  Rotten:6 Average Rating: 5.2/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Synopsis: This riveting portrait of political society and scandal in highbrow Washington, DC, stars James Spader as Tim Garrity, a socially responsible young man from the upper-middle classes who is engaged to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles (Richard Widmark); and John... This riveting portrait of political society and scandal in highbrow Washington, DC, stars James Spader as Tim Garrity, a socially responsible young man from the upper-middle classes who is engaged to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles (Richard Widmark); and John Cusack as Peter Burton, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks with ambition to burn. Both are enrolled at the University of Virginia Law School in 1983. They become roommates and friends quite by accident, and differences in their individual pursuits in politics drive them apart. Taking the Reagan-era credo of greed to heart, Burton ruthlessly claws his way up the political ladder in his effort to get elected to Congress. In the process, he betrays Garrity by stealing his fiancée (Imogen Stubbs) and then becomes involved in shady dealings with a corrupt businessman (Mandy Patinkin). Garrity, principled but passive, stands by while Burton chews up and spits out everyone and everything in his path--until Burton turns on Senator Stiles, forcing Garrity to finally take action against his friend. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: James Spader, John Cusack, Richard Widmark, Mandy Patinkin, Imogen Stubbs

Director: Herbert Ross
Screenwriter: Kevin Wade
Producer: Laurence Mark, Herbert Ross
Composer: Trevor Jones

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 20, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - French

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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1.5/5

The painstakingly obvious screenplay by Kevin Wade (Working Girl) plays like an eighth-grade civics primer: ethics and morality are good, greed and corruption are bad.

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05/20/06
Steve Davis
Austin Chronicle
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2/5

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06/20/05
Emanuel Levy
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3/5

Diverting political melodrama, but shouldn't Cusack and Spader have switched roles?

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05/12/05
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
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3/5

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11/19/04
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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07/30/04
Michelle Alexandria
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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A case study of the dire effects of an individual's lack of ethical standards.

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07/18/03
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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05/24/03
Channel 4 Film
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2/5

True Colors apparently thinks it is exposing the values of the greedy 1980's. Yet its own understanding of moral conduct is warped.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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81/100

Much of the film’s entertainment value lies in watching two familiar guys (Cusack and Spader) playing switcheroo with their stock roles, but the movie is more than just effective ‘gimmick casting’.

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02/21/03
Scott Weinberg
Apollo Guide
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08/16/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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3/5

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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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05/12/01
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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While it aspires to lofty heights, it never really goes much beyond the rules of behavior prescribed by the Boy Scout Handbook.

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01/01/00
Rita Kempley
Washington Post
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2/4

Requires more than the willing suspension of disbelief; it demands a willful abandonment of incredulity.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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