The Hurricane (1999)

 

Release date: December 29, 1999

Director: Norman Jewison

Writer: Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon

Starring: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger

Estimated budget: $50,000,000

U.S. Box Office: $50,699,241

Foreign: $23,257,000

Worldwide: $73,956,241

 

Denzel Washington is Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a man whose dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title were destroyed when he was arrested along with another man for the murders of three people in a New Jersey bar. Wrongfully accused, Carter and John Artis were sentenced to three life terms in prison.