The Hurricane Poster

The Hurricane (1999)

R 09/17/1999 Drama 2h 26m
74%
User
Score
7.6/10
83%
74/100

His greatest fight was for justice.

Overview

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Armyan Bernstein

Screenplay

Norman Jewison

Director

Dan Gordon

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

Vicellous Shannon

Vicellous Shannon

Lesra Martin

Deborah Kara Unger

Deborah Kara Unger

Lisa Peters

Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Sam Chaiton

John Hannah

John Hannah

Terry

Dan Hedaya

Dan Hedaya

Della Pesca

Debbi Morgan

Debbi Morgan

Mae Thelma

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown

Lt. Jimmy Williams

David Paymer

David Paymer

Myron Bedlock

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Media

UK Re-Release Trailer

UK Re-Release Trailer

The Hurricane Trailer

The Hurricane Trailer

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on May 30, 2025

Denzel Washington is really quite convincing here as the real-life boxer Ruben Carter who fought his way from poverty to a crack at the title only for it to be snatched away from him. That’s because he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and swiftly found himself on the wrong end of a triple life sentence for murder. With the authorities quite happy that the right man (or, indeed, any man) is locked up for these crimes, nobody is interested in paroling him let alone hearing any appeals. Things might be about to change, though, when the young Lesra (Vicellous Shannon) reads of his case and together with a few of his own mentors, decides that he is going to strive to prove Carter’s innocence. What’s quite clear is that his incarceration has robbed Carter of any semblanc...

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