Ryan Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) is a world renown violinist superstar. He has an affair with Lauren Goodhue (Kelly LeBrock) and gets framed for her husband (Michael York)'s murder. He is sentenced to death and escapes Fugitive style. He is hunted by Lieutenant Fergus Falls (Richard Crenna). He encounters Cass Lake (Melinda McGraw) who suspects Lauren to be her sister.This has all the Nielsen wacky fun. Pat Proft does his usual writing and directs for the first time. It's a bit slow at first until it gets to the Fugitive part. It's able to concentrate on spoofing that movie and is much the better for it. The funniest aspect of the movie is the Fugitive spoof. The rest with the crazy family and terrorism is a lot of noise and fury signifying who knows what. The plot is a mess anyways and would have functioned much better if it followed The Fugitive plot. This is for fans of wacky Nielsen only.

The Naked Gun movies had a character who didn't know he was stupid, mostly based in reality... Leslie Nielson flopping over a waterfall with some dolphins (instead of salmon?) is not in any way based in reality... Take out the jokes and Naked Gun still sort of vaguely hangs together as a police movie, but Wrongfully Accused is not in any way thrilling... All of the Naked Guns are far better movies. This and Spy Hard (haven't seen Dracula Dead and Loving it, and I suspect I don't want to!) are terrible. They may be spoofs, but Naked Gun still went to the trouble of providing a solid context for the absurdity... Wrongfully Accused isn't remotely interested in the setup to a joke, just its negligible payoff, and regrettably, this haphazardness shines through in the final quality of the film.

Wrongfully Accused (1998): Dir: Pat Proft / Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Le Brock, Richard Crenna, Michael York, Melinda McGraw: Spoof of The Fugitive with Leslie Nielsen as a violinist framed for murder but he escapes thanks to a bus wreckage. He is in search of the one eyed, one armed, one legged man who committed the murder. He is periodically joined by Kelly Le Brock. Pure formula with director Pat Proft doing his best at setting up sight jokes but story is thread bare. Nielsen's role is recycled from his superior work in The Naked Gun films yet he still maintains a level of straight face humour that works to his favour as he struggles to clear his name. Le Brock is basically a cardboard romantic prop who serves little purpose. Richard Crenna has the standard role of police inspector who is only scarcely funny. Michael York is wasted in a role he probably received right after his deadpan role in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Melinda McGraw is cast as the possible mistress to the York character but the character never develops beyond the 007 reference. Like Spy Hard the premise is all spoof reciting its lead. This can be funny, and Nielsen still rises above it despite the fact that it is lower level work. The production values succeed in imitating the films they are making fun of, however nobody will accuse the screenwriter of putting any ambition into a story. Score: 4 / 10

Pat Proft's directorial debut is a grand slam in my opinion, Leslie Nielsen is hilarious in this movie, he delivers some of the funniest Naked Gun inspired lines of all the characters.I would recommend this movie to anyone who just wants to chill out watch a silly movie and get some real laughs. Awesome spoof flick. Watch for old Colonel Trautman from the Rambo flicks <->(Richard Crenna). There is not a serious moment in this movie and if it seems serious at all just wait a few seconds and something silly will happen, I made a point to try that out in this movie and it never fails, it seems like every ten to fifteen seconds something crazy is going on whether on screen in front of you or in the background.