The Hurricane (Jewison, 1999): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 5.50pm
This 35mm presentation, which also screens on April 24th, is part of the season devoted to boxing films at BFI Southbank. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1967, boxer
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (Denzel Washington) spent years asserting his
innocence, growing increasingly hopeless until he was befriended by an
American teenager living in Canada (Vicellous Reon Shannon). In this
deeply moving biopic, some of the characters who rally to Carter’s
defense seem like saints, and some who oppose him seem like demons. Yet
the narrative–a complex structure of flashbacks and shifts in
perspective that’s part inspirational story, part courtroom drama, part
character study, part expose–never makes it seem that history is being
oversimplified.
Lisa Alspector
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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