The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Norman Jewison, and starring Denzel Washington. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from the books Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The 16th Round by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.
Story about 1960s world middleweight boxing champion Rubin "Hurricane" Carter--a man whose dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title were destroyed when he was arrested along with another man for the murders of three white men in a New Jersey bar. Wrongfully accused, Carter and John Artis were convicted and sentenced to three life terms in prison, where Carter decided to channel his frustration and despair by writing his own story from his cell. Although his autobigraphy, "The Sixteenth Round," did get published, Carter remained behind bars, finding inner peace by withdrawing from the outer world and the national interest which surrounded his case (including impassioned pleas from Bob Dylan and Muhammed Ali and others). Years later, an alienated American youth living in Canada, Vicellous Shannon, found direction and purpose for the first time in his life after reading Carter's book, and began corresponding with him... this eventually lead to a full-time campaign to get Carter released.
* Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter
* Vicellous Reon Shannon as Lesra Martin
* Deborah Kara Unger as Lisa Peters
* Liev Schreiber as Sam Chaiton
* John Hannah as Terry Swinton
* Dan Hedaya as Det. Sgt. Della Pesca
* Debbi Morgan as Mae Thelma Carter
* Clancy Brown as Lt. Jimmy Williams
* David Paymer as Myron Beldock
* Harris Yulin as Leon Friedman
* Rod Steiger as Judge H. Lee Sarokin
* Vincent Pastore as Alfred Bello
Genre..............: Drama
Runtime............: 139 min
IMDb Rating........: 7.4 (8,051 votes)
Language...........: English
Bonus Subtitles....: English, Swedish, Danish
Norwegian, Finish, Islandic
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