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The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical drama and prison film about boxing, directed by Norman Jewison and written by Dan Gordon. Filmed in Toronto, New Jersey, East Jersey State Prison and Paterson, it stars Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger and Liev Schreiber, with Roger Deakins as director of photography and Christopher Young as composer. Produced by Norman Jewison and Marc Abraham through Touchstone Pictures and Beacon Pictures, it was released on 17 September 1999, ran 146 minutes, and had a budget of 50,000,000 dollars against a box office of 73,956,241 dollars. Denzel Washington was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film received 7 wins and 18 nominations overall, along with review scores of 7 out of 10 and 82 percent.
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7.4The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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
Themes
- prison
- new jersey
- 1970s
- boxer
- affectation
- melancholy
- boxing school
- biography
- based on true story
- based on memoir or autobiography
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Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
105,197 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Metacritic
74/100
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Genres
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 18 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Norman Jewison
- Screenplay by
- Armyan Bernstein Dan Gordon
- Based on
- Lazarus and the Hurricane , 1991 book, by Sam Chaiton Terry Swinton The Sixteenth Round , 1974 book, by Rubin Carter
- Produced by
- Norman Jewison Armyan Bernstein John Ketcham
- Starring
- Denzel Washington John Hannah Deborah Kara Unger Liev Schreiber Vicellous Reon Shannon David Paymer Dan Hedaya Harris Yulin Rod Steiger
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Edited by
- Stephen Rivkin
- Music by
- Christopher Young
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures , Beacon Pictures , Azoff Films
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- September 17, 1999 ( 1999-09-17 ) ( TIFF ) December 29, 1999 ( 1999-12-29 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 146 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $74 million
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Norman Jewison
- Cast member
- Joe Frazier
- Composer
- Christopher Young
- Production company
- Touchstone Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Roger Deakins
- Narrative location
- New Jersey
- Filming location
- Trenton
- Duration
- 146
- FilmAffinity ID
- 243595
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Sport
- boxing
- Official website
- www.the-hurricane.com
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- title
- The Hurricane
- film editor
- Stephen E. Rivkin
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 82%
- publication date
- 2000-03-02
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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. For his performance, Washington won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same category.
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