Top billed cast

1. 

   Denzel Washington

   Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

2. 

   Vicellous Shannon

   Lesra Martin

3. 

   Deborah Kara Unger

   Lisa Peters

4. 

   Liev Schreiber

   Sam Chaiton

5. 

   John Hannah

   Terry

6. 

   Dan Hedaya

   Della Pesca

7. 

   Debbi Morgan

   Mae Thelma

8. 

   Clancy Brown

   Lt. Jimmy Williams

9. 

   David Paymer

   Myron Bedlock

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-05-30

Denzel Washington is really quite convincing here as the real-life boxer Ruben Carter who fought his way from poverty to a crack at the title only for it to be snatched away from him. That’s because he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and swiftly found himself on the wrong end of a triple life sentence for murder. With the authorities quite happy that the right man (or, indeed, any man) is locked up for these crimes, nobody is interested in paroling him let alone hearing any appeals. Things might be about to change, though, when the young Lesra (Vicellous Shannon) reads of...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$50,000,000.00

Revenue
$73,956,241.00

Keywords

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• new jersey
• 1970s
• boxer
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• melancholy
• boxing school
• biography
• based on true story
• based on memoir or autobiography
• hard
• angry
• aggressive
• 1960s
• boxing
• legal drama
• legal thriller
• absurd
• admiring
• adoring
• defiant
• demeaning
• familiar
• scathing
• tragic
• vibrant