An Innocent Man (film)
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| An Innocent Man | |
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| Directed by | Peter Yates |
| Produced by | Robert W. Cort Ted Field |
| Written by | Larry Brothers |
| Starring | Tom Selleck |
| Music by | Howard Shore |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Editing by | Joseph Gutowski Stephen A. Rotter William S. Scharf |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
| Release date(s) |  October 6, 1989 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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- For the Billy Joel album, see An Innocent Man.
An Innocent Man, is a 1989 crime / thriller film starring Tom Selleck. The film follows Jimmie Rainwood, an airline mechanic sent to prison when framed by crooked police officers.
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Detectives Mike Parnell and Danny Scaliese break into Rainwood's home, expecting to find drugs, yet are at the wrong address. When Rainwood walks out of the bathroom with a hair dryer in hand, Parnell shoots him. In order to cover up their mistake, they frame Rainwood, for which he receives a 6 year prison sentence.
Rainwood is less than well versed to the horrors of prison life, something demonstrated well when he first witnesses a man get stabbed with a screwdriver and set on fire.
Not long after his arrival, a vicious prisoner named Jingles and his gang take an interest in Rainwood.
After getting savagely beaten by Jingles and his gang, Rainwood comes to realize that all the rumblings about having to "take care of his problem" is his only recourse. A plexiglas shank is fashioned for him, Rainwood stabs Jingles to death, and ends up spending three months in a windowless, subterranean solitary confinement.
Upon his release back to general lockup, Rainwood is received a minor hero. Upon getting paroled, he sets out to seek revenge on the detectives who framed him.
[edit] Trivia
While Selleck was in Cincinnati to shoot the movie, he reportedly consumed many cough drops for ailments attributed to local conditions.
