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61% Critic Match
An Innocent Man
“Falsely accused. Unjustly convicted. Determined to survive on the inside. Demanding justice once he's on the outside.”
6.1 / 10• 1989• 1h 53m•R• English
CrimeDramaThriller
Storyline
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Cast & Crew
Tom Selleck
Jimmie Rainwood
Lead
F. Murray Abraham
Virgil Cane
Laila Robins
Kate Rainwood
David Rasche
Detective Mike Parnell LBPD
Todd Graff
Robby
M.C. Gainey
Malcolm
Peter Van Norden
Peter Feldman
Richard Young
Danny Scalise
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Peter Yates's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. An Innocent Man is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
