THE HURRICANE

Starring: Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Screiber, Vicellous Reon Shannon, David Paymer, Dan Hedaya, Harris Yulin, Rod Steiger

 

Directed by Norman Jewison

 

Written by Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon

 

Based on  “Lazarus and the Hurricane” by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton, and “The Sixteenth Round” by Rubin Carter

 

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