An Innocent Man poster
Director Peter Yates
Screenplay Larry Brothers

An Innocent Man

Release Date: 1989-10-06

Duration: 113 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Tom Selleck
    Jimmie Rainwood
  • Tobin Bell
    Zeke
  • Laila Robins
    Kate Rainwood
  • Dann Florek
    Prosecuting Attorney
  • David Rasche
    Detective Mike Parnell LBPD
  • F. Murray Abraham
    Virgil Cane
  • Philip Baker Hall
    Judge Kenneth Lavet
  • Dennis Burkley
    Butcher
  • Richard Young
    Danny Scalise
  • Jim Ortlieb
    Convict - Robby's Death