![]() ![]() Washington said, "He went through pots and pots of coffee and packs of cigarettes. Once Denzel Washington signed to play the title character, he went through long boxing training, and worked closely with Rubin Carter. At first, Jewison felt the story was so extensive that it would fit better as a television miniseries. Armyan Bernstein purchased the filming rights through Beacon Pictures, and went on to write the first scripts while establishing a financing partnership with Irving Azoff. Norman Jewison became interested in a "Hurricane" Carter biopic in 1992. Clancy Brown as Lieutenant Jimmy Williams.Dan Hedaya as Sergeant Della Pesca, based on Vincent DeSimone.Denzel Washington as Rubin 'The Hurricane' Carter.Outside following the verdict, Carter summed up his story by saying, "Hate got me into this place, love got me out." Cast As a result, Carter and later Artis were finally freed. In 1985, a Federal District Court ruled that the prosecution in Carter's second trial committed "grave constitutional violations" and that his conviction was based on racism rather than facts. However, Carter and Artis were convicted once again.Īfterwards, the plot goes back to Lesra Martin, who works with a trio of Canadian activists to push the State of New Jersey to reexamine Carter's case. Eight years later, Bello and a co-suspect, Arthur Bradley, who also claimed that Carter was present at the scene of the crimes, renounced and recanted their testimony. ![]() Throughout the trial, Carter proclaimed his innocence, claiming that his race, his boxing career and status and his work as a civil rights activist were the real reasons for his conviction. On the basis of Bello's testimony, Carter and Artis were convicted of the triple homicide in the club, and Carter was given three consecutive life sentences. When three victims, specifically the club's bartender and a male and a female customer, were shot to death in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey, Carter and his friend John Artis, driving home from another club in Paterson, were stopped and interrogated by the police.Īlthough the police asserted that Carter and Artis were innocent and thus, "were never suspects," a man named Alfred Bello, a suspect himself in the killings, claimed that Carter and Artis were present at the time of the murders. In 1966, Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter was a top-ranked middleweight boxer, expected by many fans to become the world's greatest boxing champion. Lee Sarokin of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The story culminates with Carter's legal team's successful pleas to Judge H. He convinces his Canadian foster family to commit themselves to Carter's case. In the 1980s, the child becomes interested in Carter's life and circumstances after reading Carter's autobiography. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly 20 years in prison.Ī parallel plot follows Lesra Martin, an underprivileged Afro-American youth from Brooklyn, now living in Toronto. The film concentrates on Rubin Carter's life between 19. His sentence was set aside after he had spent nearly 20 years in prison. The film tells the story of middleweight boxer Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongfully convicted of committing a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. It grossed $74 million against a budget of $50 million. The film was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on December 29, 1999. Washington was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. ![]() The film received positive reviews and won several awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for Washington's performance. The film depicts Carter's arrest, his life in prison and how he was freed by the love and compassion of a teenager from Brooklyn named Lesra Martin and his Canadian foster family. The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Carter's 1974 autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To 45472 and the 1991 non-fiction work Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter by Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted for a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. ![]()
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