An Innocent Man
MovieTitle | An Innocent Man |
User score | 6.1 |
Release date | Oct 6, 1989 |
Genre | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Director | Peter Yates |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications, Silver Screen Partners IV |
Revenue | $20,047,604 |
Run time | 113 min. |
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.