Drama

The Hurricane

Beacon Pictures

Rudy Langlois Productions

Azoff Films

United States of America

English

Denzel Washington

Vicellous Shannon

Deborah Kara Unger

Liev Schreiber

John Hannah

Dan Hedaya

Debbi Morgan

Clancy Brown

David Paymer

Harris Yulin

Rod Steiger

Badja Djola

Vincent Pastore

Al Waxman

David Lansbury

Garland Whitt

Chuck Cooper

Brenda Denmark

Marcia Bennett

Beatrice Winde

Mitchell Taylor Jr.

Bill Raymond

Merwin Goldsmith

John A. MacKay

Donnique Privott

Moynan King

Gary DeWitt Marshall

John Christopher Jones

Gwendolyn Mulamba

Richard M. Davidson

George T. Odom

Tonye Patano

Fulvio Cecere

Phillip Jarrett

Rodney "Bear" Jackson

Judi Embden

Terry Claybon

Ben Hernandez Bray

Mike Justus

Kenneth McGregor

Frank Proctor

Peter Wylie

David Wm Gray

Joe Matheson

Bill Lake

Robin Ward

Harry Davis

Pippa Pearthree

Jean Daigle

Rob Evans

Scott Gibson

Ann Holloway

Bruce McFee

Conrad Bergschneider

Satori Shakoor

Zoran Radusinovic

Stephen Lee Wright

Michael Bodnar

Carson Manning

Debrah Ellen Waller

Richard Litt

Adam Large

Peter Graham

George Masswohl

Lawrence Sacco

David Frisch

Ralph Brown

Dyron Holmes

Ryan Williams

Bruce Vavrina

Brenda Braxton

Christopher Riordan

Norman Jewison

Armyan Bernstein

John Ketcham

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter

Dan Gordon

Christopher Young

Roger Deakins

Stephen E. Rivkin

Sam Chaiton

Terry Swinton

Avy Kaufman

Philip Rosenberg

Dennis Davenport

Gordon Sim

Aggie Guerard Rodgers

Samantha Armstrong

Winnie D. Brown

Robin D. Cook

John Caglione Jr.

Irene Kent

Branko Racki

Shelley Cook

Marc Abraham

Irving Azoff

Thomas A. Bliss

Rudy Langlais

Tom Rosenberg

William Teitler

Jean-Yves Asselin

Suzann Ellis

Jon Jashni

Michael Jewison

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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 semblance of faith in the system, and his anger is barely disguised as his contempt becomes more ingrained and his despair more entrenched. The young Lesra does, however, manage to make him see that there is always hope, even when it’s clear that for the establishment, admitting it is/was wrong is simply not on it’s agenda. To add to the complications, there are also some more venal aspects enthusiastic for him to remain in jail and finally there is the convicting sheriff (Dan Hedaya) who is as racist as it’s possible to get, and who has no intention of seeing his quarry ever escape from behind bars. There are a few solid supporting roles from Liev Schrieber and briefly from Rod Steiger - though not so much from the curiously cast John Hannah - to support this developing critique on the flawed justice system that put him there, and though there’s no actual jeopardy to the conclusion of the story, Norman Jewison and Washington do still manage to keep this interesting for much of it’s admittedly overlong two and an half hours as it spotlights racial discrimination and hatred hiding in plain sight. It drags a little at times, but for the most part is quite a compelling drama.

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Vicellous Shannon

Deborah Kara Unger

Liev Schreiber

John Hannah

Dan Hedaya

Debbi Morgan

Clancy Brown

David Paymer

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