An Innocent Man

Name: An Innocent Man
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 6, 1989
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 39

1989

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Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: October 6, 1989 | R

Summary: 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 seedyJimmie 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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Roger Piantadosi

You'll cheer, you'll laugh, you'll bite your nails and feel your heart pounding right up there under your crewcut. Read full review

Susan Wloszczyna

An Innocent Man is no White Heat, and Selleck is no James Cagney. But this kind of fast-paced entertainment is almost top of the world, ma. [06 Oct 1989, p.5D]

Hal Hinson

An Innocent Man isn't an inspired piece of filmmaking, but it is tightly focused and efficient, and on its own modest terms it is effective. Read full review

Hal Lipper

Its logic is so simple, its emotion is so heartfelt, its editing and composition are so fluid, it seems to be a perfectly-crafted contemporary drama. Yet, in retrospect, it's a difficult movie to stomach. The problem with Brothers' script is that he and Yates paint characters with unbelievably broad strokes. [06 Oct 1989, p.12]

Empire Angie Errigo

Outdated and predictable revenge saga. Read full review

Roger Ebert

An Innocent Man has all the elements to put us through an emotional wringer, but the movie never works up any enthusiasm for them. It's the most relaxed crime movie of the year. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

This collection of cliches accomplishes the almost unthinkable by bringing the prison genre to a new low. Read full review

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