The Hurricane (1999 film)

The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter's autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To #45472 (published in 1974) and the book Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter (published in 1991), 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.

The Hurricane (1999 film)

The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter's autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To #45472 (published in 1974) and the book Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter (published in 1991), 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.