The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Directed by Norman Jewison
prison
new jersey
1970s
boxer
affectation
melancholy
boxing school
biography
based on true story
based on memoir or autobiography
hard
angry
aggressive
1960s
boxing
legal drama
legal thriller
absurd
admiring
adoring
defiant
demeaning
familiar
scathing
tragic
vibrant
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Cast
Denzel Washington
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Vicellous Shannon
Lesra Martin
Deborah Kara Unger
Lisa Peters
Liev Schreiber
Sam Chaiton
John Hannah
Terry
Dan Hedaya
Della Pesca
Debbi Morgan
Mae Thelma
Clancy Brown
Lt. Jimmy Williams
David Paymer
Myron Bedlock
Harris Yulin
Leon Friedman
Rod Steiger
Judge Sarokin
Badja Djola
Mobutu
Crew
Norman Jewison
Director
Dan Gordon
Screenplay
Armyan Bernstein
Screenplay
Christopher Young
Original Music Composer
Stephen E. Rivkin
Editor
Roger Deakins
Director of Photography
Norman Jewison
Producer
Armyan Bernstein
Producer
Marc Abraham
Executive Producer
Irving Azoff
Executive Producer
Tom Rosenberg
Executive Producer
Jon Jashni
Co-Producer
Popular Reviews
153 reviews
Isaiah Delong
6.0★ · 07/07/26
gotta say this is my second favorite Clancy Brown performance where he plays a prison guard
gotta say this is my second favorite Clancy Brown performance where he plays a prison guard
Dami Cortez
8.0★ · 07/08/26
Hate put me in this prison. Love’s gonna bust me out.
Hate put me in this prison. Love’s gonna bust me out.
Jesse
9.0★ · 04/05/26
Damn what a performance from Denzel
Damn what a performance from Denzel
sissi
8.0★ · 02/18/26
absolutely wrecked me. knowing that kevin spacey won the academy award over in denzel in this makes me physically ill. my dad said this when he stopped watching the oscar’s lol.
6/52 denzel films (:
absolutely wrecked me. knowing that kevin spacey won the academy award over in denzel in this makes me physically ill. my dad said this when he stopped watching the oscar’s lol.
6/52 denzel films (:
Ian Macnamar
"**Here comes the story of the Hurricane The man the authorities came to blame For somethin' that he never done Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been. The champion of the world**"
-Bob Dylan
"**Here comes the story of the Hurricane The man the authorities came to blame For somethin' that he never done Put in a prison cell, but one time he coulda been. The champion of the world**"
