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Frank s Explore Popular Culture Assignment
GBMT403: Cross-Cultural Communication and Negotiation in Business
Explore Popular Culture Assignment
Student name: Frank, Hon Ho Nam (B-B1-0314-3),
University of Macau

1. Basic information about the movie
The Hurricane
Directed by
Norman Jewison

Produced by
Norman Jewison
Marc Abraham
Armyan Bernstein
Thomas Bliss
John Ketcham

Screenplay by
Armyan Bernstein
Dan Gordon

Based on
Lazarus and the Hurricane(Sam Chaiton & Terry Swinton)
The Sixteenth Round(Rubin "Hurricane" Carter)

Starring
Denzel Washington
Vicellous Reon Shannon
Deborah Kara Unger
Liev Schreiber

Music by
Christopher Young

Cinematography
Roger Deakins

Edited by
Stephen E. Rivkin

Production company Beacon Pictures

Distributed by
Universal Studios (US)
Buena Vista International(international)

Release dates
December 29, 1999

Running time
145 minutes

Country
United States

Language
English

Budget
$50 million

Box office
$73,956,241

2. Brief description (story) of the movie
This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and has no intention of seeing it reversed.

3. There are totally three cultural groups were portrayed in the movie.
The first group are the white people especially the police in New Jersey. They are evil, corrupt, offensive, discriminative and obscene. They hate the
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