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BASED ON THE INSPIRATIONAL TRUE STORY OF A CHAMPIONHIS GREATEST FIGHT WAS FOR JUSTICE. |
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Academy
Award winner Denzel Washington (Glory, Malcolm X) is Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,
a man whose dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title were destroyed when
he was arrested along with another man for the murders of three people in a
New Jersey bar. Wrongfully accused, Carter and John Artis were convicted and
sentenced to three life terms in prison, where Carter decided to channel his
frustration and despair by writing his own story from his cell.
Although
his autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, did get published, Carter remained behind
bars, finding inner peace by withdrawing from the outer world and the national
interest which surrounded his case (including impassioned pleas from Bob Dylan
and Muhammad Ali, among others).
Years later,
an alienated American youth living in Canada (Vicellous Reon Shannon) found
direction and purpose for the first time in his life after reading Carter's
book, and began corresponding with him. Convinced of his innocence, the teenager
enlisted his social activist guardians: Terry Swinton (John Hannah), Lisa Peters
(Deborah Kara Unger) and Sam Chaiton (Liev Schreiber), to mount a full-time
campaign to get Carter released.
Initially
reluctant to join forces with these well-meaning strangers, Carter was soon
won over by their extraordinary passion and selfless commitment to his cause,
proclaiming "Hate put me in prison, love is gonna' bust me out." With renewed
faith and determination, Carter was able to continue his fight for justice and
eventually walk out a free man.
Universal
Pictures and Beacon Pictures present an Azoff Films/Rudy Langlais Production
of The Hurricane, the triumphant true story of an innocent man's 20-year fight
for justice, from acclaimed filmmaker Norman Jewison (In The Heat of the Night,
Fiddler on the Roof, A Soldier's Story and Moonstruck).
From a screenplay by Armyan Bernstein (One From The Heart) and Dan Gordon (Murder
in the First) based upon two books: The Sixteenth Round by Rubin "Hurricane"
Carter and Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton.
THE HURRICANE (15) 2 hours 25 mins
