True Colors (1991)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
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4.5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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This week on Shat the Movies, we're revisiting True Colors (1991), where friendship and ambition collide in a very 90s way. John Cusack and James Spader play college friends whose paths split as one chases power in politics and the other tries to hold onto his ideals. Gene and Big D break down the betrayals, the moral gray areas, and whether this drama still feels relevant today. Does it land as a sharp look at ambition, or just a polished soap opera? Tune in and find out.
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True Colors (1991) is a political drama directed by Herbert Ross and starring John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, and Mandy Patinkin. The film follows two friends from law school whose careers take very different directions, leading to a clash of ethics, loyalty, and personal ambition. Set against the backdrop of American politics, it explores how far someone will go to succeed and what gets lost along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | I would like to point out for the listeners that Dickiebert has sympathy for Edgar the bug. |
| 0:07.8 | Feels like maybe he wasn't such a bad guy that he was kind of a victim. |
| 0:12.3 | The cog in the machine, Gene. |
| 0:13.5 | The cog in the machine, right? |
| 0:15.0 | Just the disgusting. |
| 0:15.7 | Whereas Peter may be, and I quote, the biggest villain we've had recently. |
| 0:22.9 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:26.0 | Argyle picked him up from the plane and took him down the Nakatomi Tower at the Christmas |
| 0:32.4 | party. |
| 0:33.7 | And the terrorists were over zealids But it was sweet when they killed Alice |
| 0:38.7 | And with a little left from Allen |
| 0:41.1 | John McClain King died |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome back to chat the movies, the podcast where we answer the question |
| 0:46.3 | Were the movies we loved and we were growing up really that good? |
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