Production
Actor Denzel Washington and Rubin Carter worked closely in making the film. Washington said, "He went through pots and pots of coffee and packs of cigarettes. I'd drink a little coffee. It's interesting and challenging when the person is there, alive and in the room."
Award-winning director/producer Norman Jewison considers The Hurricane his best work.
Filming locations include: in the United States: East Jersey State Prison, Trenton, New Jersey; Avenel, New Jersey; Paterson, New Jersey; and in Canada: Toronto, Ontario.
Read more about this topic: The Hurricane (1999 film)
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“... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but it can not do without that life.”
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“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”
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“In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)