An Innocent Man (1989)
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29% of critics liked it
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42% of users liked it
(7,935 ratings)
In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are getting themselves dirtier. Mike Parnell (David… More In Peter Yates' crime drama An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck plays Jimmie Rainwood, a stock figure airline maintenance supervisor with a perfect family. Then, one day, Jimmie decides to take a shower. While scrubbing himself clean, two crooked cops are getting themselves dirtier. Mike Parnell (David Rasche) and Danny Scalise (Richard Young) are the kind of bad cops who bust the drug dealers, steal their supply, and sell it back to the local drug lords. On this day, unfortunately for Jimmie, they get the wrong address and bash down his door. When Jimmie comes out of the bathroom wielding his hair dryer, Parnell and Scalise think it is a gun and shoot him. Realizing their mistake, they cover themselves and frame him as a drug dealer. Jimmie refuses to take a plea and he is sentenced to six years in the slammer. In the brutal prison environment, he is taken aside by long-timer Virgil Kane (F. Murray Abraham), who gives him a bleak collection of options to chose from in order to survive prison. After seeing a prison gang rape, Jimmie chooses the kill-or-be-killed selection and stabs to death the nasty black convict who has been bothering him. After three years, Jimmie is released on parole, and he tries to pick up his life again. But Parnell and Scalise return to threaten Jimmie and his family. Realizing that his prison lessons must be carried over into civilian life, he sets up a situation in which the bad cops' drug dealings are revealed, and Jimmie prepares for a final reckoning between the cops and himself. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Peter Yates
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 6, 1989 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Chuck O'Leary, Fantastica Daily
The scenes of Selleck in prison are good, but his out-of-prison revenge is too contrived.
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Cast
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Tom Selleck
as Jimmie Rainwood
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F Murray Abraham
as Virgil Cane
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Laila Robins
as Kate Rainwood
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David Rasche
as Mike Parnell
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Richard Young
as Danny Scalise
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Badja Djola
as John Fitzgerald
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Todd Graff
as Robby
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Derek Anunciation
as Lester
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Tobin Bell
as Zeke
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Brian Brophy
as Nate Blitman
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Dennis Burkley
as Butcher
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J. Kenneth Campbell
as Lt. Freebery
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Dave Florek
as Court Clerk
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Holly Fulger
as Yvonne
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M.C. Gainey
as Malcolm
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Terry Golden
as Felix
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Philip Baker Hall
as Judge Lavet
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Clint Howard
as Fellow prisoner
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J.J. Johnston
as Joseph Donatelli
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Thomas B. Kackert
as Dove
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Charlie Landry
as Stevie
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Ernie Lively
as Donatelli's Dealer
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Bob Maroff
as Venucci
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Gary Matanky
as Mechanic at Hangar
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Robert Nichols
as Courthouse Guard
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Jack Orend
as Officer at Bust
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Jim Ortlieb
as Convict at Robby's Death
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Ben Slack
as Woznick
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Peter Van Norden
as Peter Feldman
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Bruce A. Young
as Jingles
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Larry Brothers
as Basketball Con
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Dean Hill
as Mike
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Alanniss Allddero
as Convict Torturer
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Maggie Baird
as Stacy
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Ralph O. Benton
as Man on Tuna Boat
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David Rhodes Brown
as Convict
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Lt. Mike Budge
as Warden
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Ron Collins
as Fritz
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Scott Jaeck
as Albert
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David Meligan
as Correctional Officer
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Vito Peterson
as Handjob
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Ben Rawnsley
as Cop at Jimmie's
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Jim Staskel
as Man on Tuna Boat
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Gary Velasco
as Courthouse Guard
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Brian J. Williams
as Man on Tuna Boat
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Jeffrey Earl Young
as Guard
- Howard Feuer
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James T. Morris
as Junior
