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The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical film directed by Norman Jewison , and starring Denzel Washington as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter , a former middleweight boxer who was convicted for a triple homicide in a bar in Paterson, New Jersey . The script was adapted by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon from Carter's autobiography The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To #45472 (published in 1974) and the book Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (published in 1991), by Sam Chaiton
The film received positive reviews, but has been criticized for inaccuracies by some media outlets and participants in Carter's trials.
The film tells the story of middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter , whose conviction for a Paterson, New Jersey triple murder was set aside after he had spent nearly 20 years in prison. Narrating Carter's life, the film concentrates on the period between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly twenty years in prison.