The Hurricane (1999)

Directed by

Norman Jewison

Genre

drama film, prison film, biographical film, boxing film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 26m

Rated

R

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 1,546 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wrongfully convicted boxer fights for justice while imprisoned. A teenager and his family work to prove his innocence.

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What happens

The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports crime 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 of a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Carter's 1974 autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To 45472 and the 1991 non-fiction work Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton. The film depicts Carter's arrest, his life in prison, and how he was freed by the love and compassion of a teenager from Brooklyn named Lesra Martin and his Canadian foster family. For his performance, Washington won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same category. The film was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on December 29, 1999. It grossed $74 million against a budget of $50 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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