An Innocent Man
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.
- genus: Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Studio: Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications, Silver Screen Partners IV
- keyword: drug crime, mistaken identity, police corruption, wrongful arrest, crime investigation, innocent in jail, innocent suspect
- cast: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Todd Graff, M.C. Gainey