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The Hurricane (1999)
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber
7.6
82%Runtime146 min
Rating15
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The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Fans of dramatic, character-driven stories will appreciate Denzel Washington's powerful performance as Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter in this 1999 film directed by Norman Jewison. The movie offers a thought-provoking look at the justice system and the fight to prove one's innocence in the face of overwhelming odds.
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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.
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