Release Date | 1989-10-06 |
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Runtime | 113 minutes |
Genres | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Stars | Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Todd Graff |
Directors | Peter Yates, Robert W. Cort, William A. Fraker, Ted Field, Stephen A. Rotter |
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.