An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man

1989 · 113 min · EN · R · 6.1 (118 votes)
Dir. Peter Yates · Starring Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Todd Graff, M.C. Gainey · Music Howard Shore
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 identitywrongful arrestcrime investigationinnocent in jailinnocent suspectcorrupt police
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