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An Innocent Man

Falsely accused. Unjustly convicted. Determined to survive on the inside. Demanding justice once he's on the outside.
Oct 6, 1989 · 1h 53m
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PLOT

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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CAST

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
Directed by Peter Yates

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
$20,047,604
Production
Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications, Silver Screen Partners IV
Country
US

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