X
- 1991
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
- 1991
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
Summary Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal.
Directed By: Herbert Ross
Written By: Kevin Wade
- 1991
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
- 1991
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 51 m
True Colors
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Summary Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal.
Directed By: Herbert Ross
Written By: Kevin Wade
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Mixed or Average
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
82% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
12% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
43
6% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
82% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
12% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Along with Cusack's marvelously natural performance, True Colors offers a premise deeper than most twentysomething-audience movies. The ethical conflicts between Spader and Cusack are thought-provoking, if simplistic and exaggerated. At the same time, True Colors seems to scream Cultural Statement. It's self-consciously anthemic. [26 Apr 1991, p.74]
There's the germ of a sexy idea in True Colors, which serves up a duplicitous friendship, Capitol Hill intrigue and even attractive scenery (indoors and out). Too bad some folks have disinfected it. [15 Mar 1991, p.4D]
True Colors is obvious and heavy-handed, loaded with cliches, and never really seems to inhabit the world in which it is set -- Washington politics. But more than just being mediocre, there's something obnoxious about the movie. It's a look at the ethics of the generation that came of age in the 1980s, presented by an older generation that has no more insight, sympathy or understanding of its subject than Gramps had of Woodstock. [12 Apr 1991, p.E1]
True Colors rushes by at a hectic pace, never allowing the story to gain momentum. Despite good performances from the two leads, the film has the feel of a cautionary stampede. While it aspires to lofty heights, it never really goes much beyond the rules of behavior prescribed by the Boy Scout Handbook.
True Colors represents a cloyingly schematic attempt to portray the political and moral bankruptcy of the 1980s in a neat little package. Pic condemns but doesn't begin to analyze the corrupted values of the Reagan years, leaving one feeling soiled but unenlightened.
Spader and Cusack go through the motions as political sparring partners in this coming of age drama.
The don't-get-caught '80s and holier-than-thou '90s do battle in True Colors, a political drama of all-too familiar dimensions. 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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