The read
A Balasaur Score of 55 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 44%, Metacritic 39/100. Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do. Most of the 432 1980s crime movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
158 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter YatesDirector
- Howard ShoreOriginal Music Composer
- Larry BrothersScreenplay
Cast
- Tom SelleckJimmie Rainwood
- F. Murray AbrahamVirgil Cane
- Laila RobinsKate Rainwood
- David RascheDetective Mike Parnell LBPD
- Todd GraffRobby
- M.C. GaineyMalcolm
- Peter Van NordenPeter Feldman
- Richard YoungDanny Scalise
- Badja DjolaJohn Fitzgerald
- Bruce A. YoungJingles
- James T. MorrisJunior
- Terry GoldenFelix
