The Hurricane

A wrongly accused boxer fights for his freedom while an underprivileged youth becomes determined to help him, resulting in his release and highlighting the racial discrimination he faced. The Hurricane is a 1999 American English-language Biography Drama film featuring Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, Vicellous Reon Shannon, David Paymer and Michael Stevens. The movie is inspired from Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton Terry Swinton The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To 45472 by Rubin Carter. Beacon Pictures was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Norman Jewison, Armyan Bernstein and John Ketcham. The Hurricane is written by Rubin hurricane Carter, Sam Chaiton, Terry Swinton, Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon and it is directed by Norman Jewison. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. The Hurricane was released on 27th April 2000 and takes a screen time of 146 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. The Hurricane was made on a budget of $50 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $73 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon. Cinematography was done by Roger Deakins and editing by Stephen Rivkin. The music was composed by Christopher Young. At the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival It won an award for Best Actor (Denzel Washington).