The Hurricane
1999
***½
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger
Denzel Washington is better than ever in this gripping true story about a man who was jailed for 20 years for a crime he had nothing to do with. Like A Beautiful Mind the screenplay turns this slightly conflicted character into a total innocent. Based on the books Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton and The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to #45472 by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.
