---
title: 'The Hurricane (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Norman Jewison'
released: '1999-09-17'
runtime_minutes: 146
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-hurricane-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174856/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Hurricane (1999)

1999 · 146 min · Drama, History · United States


## Synopsis

The Hurricane is a 1999 American biographical sports crime drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison. The film stars Denzel Washington as Rubin "The Hurricane" Carter, a former middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of a triple murder in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Norman Jewison](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-jewison)
- **Producer:** [Norman Jewison](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-jewison), [Armyan Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/armyan-bernstein), [Marc Abraham](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-abraham), [Thomas Bliss](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-bliss), [John Ketchem](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ketchem)
- **Screenplay:** [Armyan Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/armyan-bernstein), [Dan Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/dan-gordon)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Christopher Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-young)
- **Director of Photography:** [Roger Deakins](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-deakins)
- **Editor:** [Stephen E. Rivkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-e-rivkin)

## Cast

- [Rod Steiger](https://cinepixo.com/people/rod-steiger) as H. Lee Sarokin
- [Gwendolyn Mulamba](https://cinepixo.com/people/gwendolyn-mulamba)
- [Ann Holloway](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-holloway)
- [Moynan King](https://cinepixo.com/people/moynan-king)
- [Beatrice Winde](https://cinepixo.com/people/beatrice-winde)
- [Chuck Cooper](https://cinepixo.com/people/chuck-cooper)
- [Jean Daigle](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-daigle)
- [Debbi Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/debbi-morgan)
- [Ben Hernandez Bray](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hernandez-bray)
- [Dan Hedaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/dan-hedaya)
- [Vicellous Reon Shannon](https://cinepixo.com/people/vicellous-reon-shannon) as Lesra Martin
- [Judi Embden](https://cinepixo.com/people/judi-embden)
- [Richard M. Davidson](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-m-davidson)
- [Liev Schreiber](https://cinepixo.com/people/liev-schreiber)
- [Rodney 'Bear' Jackson](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodney-bear-jackson)

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Official site: http://www.the-hurricane.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-hurricane-1999
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