On a hot summer’s day 12 men will be deciding the unlikely fate of a young man who has been accused of killing his own father. Most of the evidence points to the young man as being guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Until one man stands up for true justice, and protects the kid from an unpredictable ending to the movie.
12 men on a jury cram into a little office with the table being almost the size of the room. Its extremely hot and some people in there are more worried about other obligations then sentencing a man to prison for a crime. Once the jurors got into the room a vote was immediately taken. All the Jurors accept one
Voted guilty. Jack Lemmon ( Juror 8 ) claimed that the boy was innocent. He took on an enormous amount of pressure and was also kicked around because of the decision he had made. Jack goes on and tells a very convincing story on
My review of this movie would have to be that this is probably one of the best court-based movies I have ever seen. It don’t lose an ounce of its entertainment from the beginning to the end of the movies credits. I really enjoyed this movie because it seemed like they didn’t over exaggerate the movie settings and the plot, and the case is real life, and Lemmon’s reasoning for why the young boy was innocent made sense and didn’t seem to be over exaggerated.
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