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An Innocent Man

Falsely accused. Unjustly convicted. Determined to survive on the inside. Demanding justice once he's on the outside.

Rating 6.1 / 10Release October 6, 1989Runtime 113 min

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.

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