He grew up in a bad neighborhood, had trouble with the police since childhood, and was eventually wrongly sentenced to three life sentences. Rubin Carter (Denzel Washington), who earned the nickname The Hurricane in the ring, was a middleweight dark horse. His championship dreams are shattered the moment he is arrested, charged with triple murder and, thanks to a hateful cop and intimidated, manipulated witnesses, convicted.
Fighting to preserve human dignity and sanity, Hurricane writes his autobiography, aptly titled The Sixteenth Round, while in his cell. Years pass, despite protests and support from popular figures Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali, Hurricane remains in prison thanks to unsuccessful appeals courts. His book has long since moved from the bestseller shelves to the shelves of antique stores. Yet it is the book that will bring him the freedom he dreams of after 20 years behind bars.
A young black man, coming from the same poor circumstances as the Hurricane, together with his foster parents can do the incredible. After reading The Sixteenth Round, they succeed in what attorneys have been trying in vain to do for twenty years. They will return Hurricane to freedom. The film is based on true events...
HURRICANE - TECHNICAL DATA
Music: Christopher Young, Jeremy Sweet
Script: Dan Gordon, Armyan Bernstein
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Production: Norman Jewison, Armyan Bernstein
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