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The Hurricane

1999 • 2h 26m •
Drama
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★ 7.4/10
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The Hurricane

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

"His greatest fight was for justice."

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

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2025-05-30

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...