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06/10/1989 Crime, Drama, Thriller 1h 53m
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Falsely accused. Unjustly convicted. Determined to survive on the inside. Demanding justice once he's on the outside.

Overview

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.

  1. Peter Yates

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tom Selleck

    Jimmie Rainwood

  2. F. Murray Abraham

    Virgil Cane

  3. Laila Robins

    Kate Rainwood

  4. David Rasche

    Detective Mike Parnell LBPD

  5. Todd Graff

    Robby

  6. M.C. Gainey

    Malcolm

  7. Peter Van Norden

    Peter Feldman

  8. Richard Young

    Danny Scalise

  9. Badja Djola

    John Fitzgerald

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2016-05-23
That's Virgil Cane man, Lone Ranger ain't got nothing on him.

James Rainwood (Tom Selleck) is a real stand up guy, with a loving wife and in a dream job with a company that just couldn't cope without him. His life is just dandy, That is until two corrupt cops make a mistake and burst into his home believing it to be host to a drug deal. Thinking his hairdryer is a gun, one of the cops shoots Rainwood and it's then that the cops realise they have made a monumental error. So planting drugs around the home they set Rainwood up as a dealer who shot at the cops. Believing justice & honesty will...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$20,047,604.00

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