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1999 |
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145 minutes |
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Lazarus and the Hurricane |
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Norman Jewison |
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Mark Abraham, Armyan Bernstein, John Ketcham |
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Universal Pictures |
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Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber |
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Director Norman Jewison showed the film uncompleted at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival, without credits or proper color. He had been working on the movie the night before it was shown, and submitted it to the festival with the film still splinted together in hundreds of pieces. Before showing the movie he said to the eager audience, "I'm so nervous that the splints may fall apart."
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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.
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The Hurricane Reviews |
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THE HURRICANE (Universal Pictures)- Norman (`Moonstruck') Jewison's latest film is a biopic of former boxer Ruben `Hurricane' Carter, who, in the mid-60's, was framed for the murder of three white men and sentenced to life in prison. Carter's story (which Bob Dylan immortalized in his song, `Hurricane') is an important one, and it involves the topic of racial injustice, which Norman Jewison depicted to perfection in films such as `In The Heat Of The Night', `A Soldier's Story' and even `Fiddler On The Roof' . But in order to truly express my disappointment at `The Hurricane', I must quote fellow critic Roger Ebert. `Movies aren't about what they're about,' he says. `They're about how they're about what they're about.' Jewison has the story (and the 2 1/2 hour running time) for an epic, but the script (by Armyan Bernstein and Dan Gordon) and direction are wildly unfocused, making this `Hurricane' a near-disaster.
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