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An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 6, 1989

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Crime, Drama, Thriller

User Score

61%

Original Title

An Innocent Man

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications, Silver Screen Partners IV

Director

Peter Yates

Revenue

$20,047,604

Description

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.