An Innocent Man
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Drama
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 ... [+]
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"This 1989 movie looks much of the time like an old idea that's been too enthusiastically colorized. The prison sequences work best, and they seem almost like a completely separate film" | ||||
"'An Innocent Man' has all the elements to put us through an emotional wringer, but the movie never works up any enthusiasm for them. It's the most relaxed crime movie of the year. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" | ||||
"You'll cheer, you'll laugh, you'll bite your nails and feel your heart pounding right up there under your crewcut." | ||||
"An Innocent Man might have been a decent enough study of justice gone horribly awry -- if the screenplay weren't so crudely manipulative" " | ||||
"With the exception of Abraham's world-weary performance, and a couple of nicely nasty cameos from David Rasche and Richard Young as the crooked cops, this is a disposable affair." | ||||
"This collection of cliches accomplishes the almost unthinkable by bringing the prison genre to a new low." |
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