Boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dreams of winning the middleweight world title, only to be wrongfully thrown into prison for the murders of three people in a bar. Nineteen years later, a teenager reads the fighter's autobiography and sets out on a campaign to free him. Fact-based drama, starring Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber and Dan Hedaya.