12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet · 1957 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Twelve jurors retire on a hot afternoon to convict a teenager of murdering his father, and one of them votes not guilty. He asks only that they talk it through for an hour before sending the boy to the chair. Reasonable doubt assembled argument by argument in a single room.

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