Taglines: His greatest fight was for justice.
The Hurricane tells the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms.
Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed.
The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Carter’s autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To 45472 and the non-fiction work Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton.
The Hurricane (1999)
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, Vicellous Reon Shannon, David Paymer, Dan Hedaya, Harris Yulin, Rod Steiger
Screenplay by: Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon
Production Design by: Philip Rosenberg
Cinematography by: Roger Deakins
Film Editing by: Stephen E. Rivkin
Costume Design by: Aggie Guerard Rodgers
Set Decoration by: Gordon Sim
Art Direction by: Dennis Davenport
Music by: Jeremy Sweet, Christopher Young
MPAA Rating: R for language and some violence.
Distributed by: Universal Studios (United States), Buena Vista Pictures (United Kingdom)
Release Date: December 29, 1999
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