Over 20 national critics agree: "One of the year's best!" Dezel Washington stars as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Cut down in the prime of his boxing career and convicted of three murders he did not commit, Carter writes a best-selling autobiography which inspires a young man (Vicellous Reon Shannon)to enlist the help of activists (Deborah Kara Unger, John Hannah, Lieve Schreiber) to make Carter a free man.