An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man

1989 · 113 min · EN · R · 6.1 (160 votes)
Dir. Peter Yates · Starring Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Todd Graff, M.C. Gainey · Music Howard Shore

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

CrimeDramaThriller

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.

VIBE

A grim, hard-boiled descent into the American justice system's dark underbelly. It's a raw, unflinching look at wrongful conviction and the desperate fight for survival against overwhelming odds, where trust is a luxury and every shadow hides a threat.

grittytensedesperatebleaksteadyneo-noircrime dramaproceduralinjusticecorruptionsurvivalidentity
drug crimemistaken identitypolice corruptionwrongful arrestcrime investigationinnocent in jailinnocent suspect