An Innocent Man( 1989)

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

Overview

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.

Top Billed 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
Badja Djola
John Fitzgerald
Bruce A. Young
Jingles
James T. Morris
Junior
Terry Golden
Felix
Dennis Burkley
Butcher
Charle Landry
Stevie
Tobin Bell
Zeke
Scott Jaeck
Albert
Holly Fulger
Yvonne
Philip Baker Hall
Judge Kenneth Lavet
J. Kenneth Campbell
Lieutenant Freebery
Jim Ortlieb
Convict - Robby's Death
James Staszkiel
Man on Tuna Boat
Brian J. Williams
Man on Tuna Boat
Maggie Baird
Stacy
Derek Anunciation
Lester
Ben Slack
Woznick
J.J. Johnston
Joseph Donatelli
Brian Brophy
Nate Blitman
Ben Rawnsley
Cop at Jimmie's
Dean Hill
Mike
Jack Orend
Officer at Bust
Ernie Lively
Donatelli's Dealer
Larry Brothers
Basketball
Dave Florek
Court Clerk
Joseph Carberry
Dann Florek
Prosecuting Attorney
Doug MacHugh
Bailiff
Lare Roberts
Inmate
Thomas B. Kackert
Dove
Vito Peterson
Handjob
Alanniss Allddero
Convict Torturer
Bob Maroff
Venucci
David Rhodes Brown
Convict
Jeffrey Earl Young
Guard
Michael J. Budge
Warden
David Meligan
Correctional Officer
Ron Collins
Fritz
Gary Velasco
Courthouse Guard
Robert E. Nichols
Courthouse Guard

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Mon 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 ...