The Hurricane
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.
Plot
In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a promising and top-ranked middleweight boxer from Paterson, New Jersey, who was expected by many fans in to become the world's greatest boxing champion. However, a bartender and two customers were shot to death in a bar, Carter and his friend John Artis, driving home from another club in Paterson, were stopped and interrogated by the police moments after the crime while the police were investigating the killings.
Cast
- Al Waxman
- Ann Holloway
- Badja Djola
- Beatrice Winde
- Ben Hernandez Bray
- Bill Lake
- Bill Raymond
- Brenda Denmark
- Chuck Cooper
- Clancy Brown
- Dan Hedaya
- David Lansbury
- David Paymer
- David Wm Gray
- Debbi Morgan
- Deborah Kara Unger
- Denzel Washington
- Donnique Privott
- Frank Proctor
- Fulvio Cecere
- Garland Whitt
- Gary DeWitt Marshall
- George T. Odom
- Gwendolyn Mulamba
- Harris Yulin
- Jean Daigle
- Joe Frazier
- Joe Matheson
- John A. MacKay
- John Christopher Jones
- John Hannah
- Judi Embden
- Kenneth McGregor
- Liev Schreiber
- Marcia Bennett
- Merwin Goldsmith
- Michael Justus
- Mitchell Taylor Jr.
- Moynan King
- Peter Wylie
- Phillip Jarret
- Pippa Pearthree
- Richard M. Davidson
- Rob Evans
- Robin Ward
- Rod Steiger
- Rodney 'Bear' Jackson
- Scott Gibson
- Terry Claybon
- Tonye Patano
- Vicellous Reon Shannon
- Vincent Pastore
More details
| author | Armyan Bernstein Dan Gordon |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New Jersey |
| director | Norman Jewison |
| editor | Stephen E. Rivkin |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | boxing champion claim drive foster family h. lee sarokin kill lesra martin life sentence question shot to death united states district court for the district of new jersey |
| musicBy | Christopher Young |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor |
| producer | Armyan Bernstein John Ketcham Norman Jewison |
| productionCompany | Beacon Pictures Danish Film Institute Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| recordedAt | East Jersey State Prison New Jersey Paterson Toronto Trenton |
| theme | biographical biographical drama prison race and ethnicity |