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Best movie ever!

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Peter Burton (John Cusack) and Tim Garrity (James Spader) are waiting for Peter's congressional election results. The movie flashes back to University of Virginia Law School where the two best friend first met in a fender bender. Tim is from a rich family and plans to pursue a career in justice. His girlfriend Diana (Imogen Stubbs), the daughter of Senator Stiles (Richard Widmark), breaks up with him. Peter is ambitious and amoral social climber coming from a poor background. He had an affair with Diana and even marries her. Despite that, Tim stays as Peter's best man. Peter's rise in politics involve mob-connected John Palmieri (Mandy Patinkin) putting him in direct conflict with Tim who joined the Justice Department.These are two of the best actors of their age. They do their utmost but the story unfolds with a series of plot points. Concentrating on Peter Burton could have made this an interesting dark movie. This has the feel of a Brat Pack movie trying to do politics although the guys bring it. This film is unable to build tension and lacks the intensity that it deserves.

I love good political movies. And I can see what they're trying to do with 'True Colors.' It's definitely ambitious, I'll give you that. But ultimately, I felt like this film just couldn't pull it off.The writing and dialogue were incredibly contrived. I mean, some of Ibsen's dialogue feels more natural than this. Also, every scene was a distracting and incredibly bizarre set piece, which they pretended to include in some casual, off-hand way, as if to suggest what rich and powerful people do with their free time: from a skiing holiday, to schmoozing with politicos at Super Bowl XXIII in Miami, to sport fishing off the back of a yacht. It felt like they were just plucking ideas from old episodes of that ridiculous show 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.' I'm surprised they didn't throw in a scene with characters chatting while on an African big-game safari in Tanzania.Even though I love both actors, at their young ages in these roles Cusack and Spader were playing above their weight class. They looked more like little boys playing dress-up and pretending to be adults.Imogen Coot or Stubble or Stubbly or Whatever was *horrible*. Her 'American' accent was literally all over the place, to the point that they had to add a line about boarding school in England to try to excuse it. Her 'acting' was atrocious.The only thing that kept me mildly intrigued were the oodles of homoerotic overtones (whether intentional or not) that seemed to pop up in so many scenes between Cusack and Spader. The writers apparently didn't know how to show us that these guys were really close friends, and they ended up writing scenes that just look incredibly embarrassing today. (Unless they included the whole secret gay subtext on purpose.)Someone on the message boards jokingly labeled this movie 'Brokeback Capitol!' (Hahahaha!) -- I *wish*. Just take Imogen Idiot out of the middle of it, and let our two young heroes struggle with their secret love affair vs. their conflicting political ambitions. *That* actually would have been a better movie.Finally, it's a little sad that this was the final role of the great Richard Widmark. At least we know that when he got to yell at young James Spader for being such a cocky little sunnabitch, he probably didn't have to work too hard at it.

This middling little movie is about a lot of things. Friendship, politics, betrayal, ambition, classism and idealism are just a few. What it is about more than anything else, however, is how its two main characters are totally not gay.Peter Burton and Tim Gerrity (John Cusack and James Spader) start out as law school roommates. Peter is a charismatic young man on the move, reinventing himself as he goes, while Tim is the sort of doggedly earnest do-gooder who disdains things like money and power the way only a rich man's son can. Diana (Imogen Stubbs) is the Senator's daughter who comes between them. She starts out with Tim but grows weary of his desire for the small life and transfers her attentions to Peter and his big dreams. And the fact that both guys get involved with the same girl proves they are totally not gay.Eventually Tim ends up in the Department of Justice and Peter joins the staff of Diana's father (Richard Widmark), angling constantly for his own advancement. Always ready to cut corners, Peter gets a shady developer to bankroll his run for Congress. Always full of integrity, Tim sets himself the task of taking down his old friend. And remember, they are totally not gay.In most respects, True Colors is a fair piece of work. It's take on political and personal corruption is simultaneously a little naïve and melodramatic, but Cusack and Spader overcome that by giving you an early look at how they'd become such magnetic performers. Richard Widmark brings a little old Hollywood style to things and Mandy Patinkin glimmers as sleek, worldly temptation. Yeah, the story never gets much beyond a superficial level. However, it looks good, sounds good and moves along at a nice clip. This is some professionally constructed entertainment.And did I mention that Peter Burton and Tim Gerrity are totally not gay? Yes, they clearly care far more about each other than either did about Diana. Sure, they hang out together and vacation together and trust each other more than anyone else in the world. And of course, the film's big emotional climax sees them rolling around on the floor in each other's arms. But they are totally not gay.Seriously.Not gay.At all.Really.

How do politicians become so corrupt? This film explores one pathway: ambitious young man willing to bend the law, take opportunities (or make them) as they come, sacrifice friendship, invent the facts to suit the occasion etc.This time, however, we have the pleasure of seeing some accountability - too bad it doesn't happen more often.Well acted, well directed. I gave it 8.