An Innocent Man

Oct 6, 1989

1h 53m

★ 6.1

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures

Interscope Communications

Silver Screen Partners IV

An Innocent Man Trailers

Cast

Jimmie Rainwood

Tom Selleck

Virgil Cane

F. Murray Abraham

Kate Rainwood

Laila Robins

Detective Mike Parnell LBPD

David Rasche

Robby

Todd Graff

Malcolm

M.C. Gainey

Peter Feldman

Peter Van Norden

Danny Scalise

Richard Young

John Fitzgerald

Badja Djola

Jingles

Bruce A. Young

Junior

James T. Morris

Felix

Terry Golden

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