Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Ennis, 20, pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree manslaughter and was ordered to spend six months in jail, work 480 hours of community service and pay $3,000 in fines...
First-time screenwriter Larry Brothers focuses on the relationship between married couple Kate (Laila Robins) and Jimmie Rainwood (Tom Selleck) to explain Jimmie's perseverence through three years in jail. Robins, however, destroys the credibility of the couple's love. She whines in monotones and never replaces her half-laughing, half-crying expression with solid performance...
Jimmie's prison survival, and the movie's too, really depends on Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham), a convict who teaches Jimmie more than how to get by in jail. Abraham introduces integrity to An Innocent Man, first in his portrayal of Virgil and then in Virgil's effect on Jimmie...
...jail, racial tensions and gangs threaten innocent Jimmie. The convicts he encounters match in violence the police who frame him for drug dealing in order to conceal their mistake in busting his house...
...Innocent Man scrapes by with a few more scars than Jimmie after a gang fight. Though photographers and editors conceal none of the movie's injuries, their beautiful shots foil Jimmie's jail-sentence better than his home life does...