An Innocent Man
1989 · Movie · R · 113 min · ★ 6.1 · 39% critics
After a mistaken raid, an ordinary man is shot and then framed by corrupt officers who need to cover their tracks. Convicted on false testimony, he’s sent to a brutal prison where survival is its own daily battle, even as he searches for a way to clear his name and confront the injustice that put him there.
Also known as Innocent
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Details
- Years
- 1989
- Release date
- 1989-10-06
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Critic score
- 39/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (150 votes)
- Box office
- $20,047,604
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a gritty, entertaining wrongful-conviction story that leans hard into prison survival and payback, in the vein of Lock Up or Suspect; Not for you if you dislike harsh prison threats or cliché-heavy plotting.
Pros: tense prison survival; strong supporting performances; satisfying justice angle | Cons: familiar genre beats; uneven outside-prison scenes; some disturbing moments
Themes
- drug crime
- mistaken identity
- police corruption
- wrongful arrest
- crime investigation
- innocent in jail
- innocent suspect
Cast & crew
Tom Selleck
as Jimmie Rainwood
F. Murray Abraham
as Virgil Cane
Laila Robins
as Kate Rainwood
David Rasche
as Detective Mike Parnell LBPD
Todd Graff
as Robby
M.C. Gainey
as Malcolm
Peter Van Norden
as Peter Feldman
Richard Young
as Danny Scalise
Badja Djola
as John Fitzgerald
Bruce A. Young
as Jingles
Directed by Peter Yates