Word: manful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Innocent Man...
...things to all people. The makers of An Innocent Man, Tom Selleck's new action-adventure movie, need to learn this lesson. The film tries to follow too many tangential plot lines and loses the audience's attention in the process...
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...
When the plot turns and the characters gain control of their own justice, An Innocent Man improves. Selleck becomes likeable; his acting gains gusto. Instead of mumbling his poorly written lines, he wields Magnum P.I. inflections. And he infuses emotion into a simple comment about fighting. "It scares me," he says, "but I can handle...
...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...