True Colors

True Colors (1991)

  • 47% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (4,853 ratings)

John Cusack and James Spader play against type in Kevin Wade's morality play, directed by Herbert Ross. Spader plays Tim Gerrity, a well-heeled WASP blueblood, who has dedicated his life to justice and public service. Engaged to Diana Stiles (Imogene Stubbs), the daughter of a powerful senator… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Kevin Wade
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Mar 15, 1991 Wide
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

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

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    While it aspires to lofty heights, it never really goes much beyond the rules of behavior prescribed by the Boy Scout Handbook.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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

  • Steve Davis, Austin Chronicle

    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.

  • Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    This movie has three of my favourite actors: Cusack, Spader, and Widmark. But I only got to see the second half of it on TV one day. It's full of political stuff I don't understand and don't care for, but like I said, I didn't get to see the whole of it. From… More

  • ♥˩ƳИИ &


    John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark DIRECTED BY: Herbert Ross Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal. It was a good movie with great performances from… More

  • Conner R


    I was really impressed with how good the acting was in this. James Spader and John Cusack really worked well together. I can't believe Cusack actually pulled off being a villain, I always saw him as the nice guy, but he really did well. James Spader also did well as usual, but… More

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