An Innocent Man (1989)

06/10/1989 (US)•Crime, Drama, Thriller•1h 53m

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Falsely accused. Unjustly convicted. Determined to survive on the inside. Demanding justice once he's on the outside.

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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.

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Tom Selleck
Jimmie Rainwood
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
Badja Djola
John Fitzgerald

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A review by John Chard

7.0

Written by John Chard on May 23, 2016

That's Virgil Cane man, Lone Ranger ain't got nothing on him. James Rainwood (Tom Selleck) is a real stand up guy, with a loving wife and in a dream job with a company that just couldn't cope without him. His life is just dandy, That is until two corrupt cops make a mistake and burst into his home believing it to be host to a drug deal. Thinking his hairdryer is a gun, one of the cops shoots Rainwood and it's then that the cops realise they have made a monumental error. So planting drugs around the home they set Rainwood up as a dealer who shot at the cops. Believing justice & honesty will...