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The Hurricane
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
1999 · Directed by Norman Jewison · 146 min · Drama · 11 frames
Tagline
His greatest fight was for justice.
Crew
- Screenplay: Dan Gordon, Armyan Bernstein
- Cinematography: Roger Deakins
- Edited by: Stephen E. Rivkin
- Music: Christopher Young
- Production design: Philip Rosenberg
- Produced by: Norman Jewison, Armyan Bernstein, John Ketcham
Cast
- Denzel Washington as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
- Vicellous Shannon as Lesra Martin
- Deborah Kara Unger as Lisa Peters
- Liev Schreiber as Sam Chaiton
- John Hannah as Terry
- Dan Hedaya as Della Pesca
- Debbi Morgan as Mae Thelma
- Clancy Brown as Lt. Jimmy Williams
- David Paymer as Myron Bedlock
- Harris Yulin as Leon Friedman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Beacon Pictures, Rudy Langlois Productions, Azoff Films
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $73,956,241
- Themes: prison, new jersey, 1970s, boxer, affectation, melancholy, boxing school, biography, based on true story, based on memoir or autobiography
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