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This movie was done years ago and still holds up today.Tom Selleck works as a pilot and has a pretty good life. Two cops go to the wrong address and shoot him as he gets out of the shower, holding a blow dryer. The frame up builds as they do everything to no get caught. Then he gets sentenced and faces a different life in prison. Learns to adapt and become a different person inside prison.It's such a movie and watching his wife do everything she can to get him out.

A great movie in decent VHS condition.

The movie was okay. I didn't expect the language.

Jimmie Rainwood (Selleck) has nearly the perfect life. A good job, leadership skills, a beautiful wife Kate (Laila Robins) who he loves and who is trying to improve herself. They are planning for kids. A little less perfect might make this film more interesting but the start of this movie is making a statement: these two people have done nothing wrong. Meanwhile two out of control cops are prowling the neighborhood busting drug users, selling and using themselves. Mike and Danny both slightly over act their parts, especially Danny with his gold chains and bulging eyeballs. They are a couple of reptiles from a crack in the ground if there ever was a pair. Hence they misread a tip on a location and arrive at Jimmie's house. Weapons drawn they drop the door and drop Jimmie who is armed with a hair dryer. Upon recovery Jimmie discovers he is being tried for possession of cocaine and attempting to shoot a police officer.After a trial Jimmie is convicted, due to Mike and Danny spitting lies from the witness stand. The film tugs at this audience strings as an innocent man is poorly judged in criminal law. Hence Jimmie is found guilty and sent to prison for 6 Years.This movie gives a version of prison life as a caldron of anger, contempt, rape, and severe racism. Jingles seems to be the center of trouble. Jingles (Bruce Young) plays a very effective hardened felon who is as mean as they come. He continually mocks and bullies Jimmie. Jimmie is lucky a con named Virgil Caine offers friendship and advice on how to deal with an inside situation less he be raped or worse. The next few scenes seem real and well done and are very tense. It is hard to watch this very dramatic and graphic section of the film.So Jimmie gets paroled. I noticed through the remainder of the film Jimmie does not reveal to Kate he has killed someone in prison. I think this is a flaw in the film. All he says to Kate is "you don't know me anymore." The movie misses a test of love and a potential for some excellent scenes. I waited the last quarter of the movie for him to tell her.Mike and Danny are on the scene when Jimmie comes home. These two clowns show up at the house insulting Kate and Jimmie due to their fear of being discovered. This leads to the climax of the movie. The final scenes are a kind of rat race, but over all I very much enjoyed this film and will watch it often. Go see it! GJ

This film gets away from Selleck’s sex symbol characterization and sees him cast as an anti-hero, who is forced to become a very dark person to survive. A break-out role for him, this movie is the first inkling of what we’d come to see in the future from Selleck, with him eschewing his pretty-man looks to play his seminal role as Ike Eisenhower, and other characters with dark pasts, flawed characters, and complicated lives. While Tom Selleck can certainly appeal to women, I was never a Magnum P.I. fan. I became a Selleck fan when he got real about his true abilities to play more than light comedic dramas, and pose as the good cop.Although Selleck now plays NYPD Police Comish Frank Regan, Frank is a complex, authoritarian character given to bouts of melancholy and self-doubt. To see joyous laughter exude from under Frank’s mustache is as common as a pink elephant tap dancing on his desk: it doesn’t happen.I’m now a Selleck fan and do searches for his films. It’s great to see how an actor can evolve and grow over time. I’m convinced we have more to see from Mr. Selleck. I’m sure he has yet to do more deep self examination and dig in to where he wants to go as an artist, and mine some more little gems for us to admire in the future.

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Great movie. One of my favorites

this was a very good movie.

I found this quite a depressing film, though Selleck’s acting as always was good. Jim Rainwood (Tom Selleck) is an aircraft engineer and is emerging from his shower when two cops burst into his home and shoot him, first, mistaking him for a drug dealer and second thinking that the hair dryer he has in his hand is a gun. In fact it isn’t even the right house – not that these cops are too bothered as they are on the take anyway. Of course, they have the usual ‘throw down’ gun available to frame the victim – all too close to customary practice in U.S. law enforcement for my taste.Most of the film is about the life of intimidation and persecution Rainwood suffers in prison – until he is provoked into seeking retribution for the abuse he suffers. I found this movie unsatisfactory and unconvincing, though the grim realities of prison life are stark enough. First, his very sweet wife Kate (Laila Robins) doesn’t seem to have much idea about getting a decent lawyer to defend her husband. Secondly, I would be appalled if the police really did make so little effort to establish the true facts of a case against an upright citizen with no record of involvement with drugs. I certainly wouldn’t want to watch this again.

Tom Selleck was a bit of a joke in his Magnum P.I. days, but after that mullarkey had passed by, his more serious, and accomplished, acting has come to the fore. Even though this is quite an old piece of work, by modern standards, it stands the test of time quite well, and offers an entertaining and well acted movie to his now renowned skillset. I'd recommend it to anyone . . . over 18yrs of course.

.Saw this film years ago but the story is one that returns to your mind. Makes you think that it could just as easily 'happen to you' - albeit more likely ( one hopes!) in the U.S. than in the U.K.The injustice really affects you and you can totally understand why the Tom Selleck character has to 'change' just to survive and thus becomes the person he does.For some reason my husband had never seen this film and so we settled down to watch it together on a cold wet Spring evening and both thoroughly enjoyed it.Doesn't appear dated and all the acting is superb - even the baddies (corrupt Police Officers) whom you absolutelyHATE.Recommended..

Love a lot of his movies but this one is very different to all his others. Plenty of action, well as much as he can do in jail as he was innocent, and the crooked cops that set him up are in trouble from a man who was emotionally torn apart. Suspense keeps your nerves going in this thriller type of movie so grab your popcorn settle into your chair and get comfortable as to relax with this first class entertainment with a fabulous cast and story. I rated this an A grade plus worth watching and judging for yourself, Sorry no more clues as there is more to the movie I haven't told but that is cheating and would spoil it. Enjoy an unforgettable classic that will keep you glued to the chair.

In my opinion, one of Tom Sellecks best films, a bit darker and grittier than his usual stuff, I'm not his greatest fan but this is well worth a watch