12 Angry Men

Movie • 1957

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A powerful courtroom drama exploring themes of justice and prejudice, shot almost entirely in one room.

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Tense, sharp, almost theatrical in its use of space and black-and-white.

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A powerful examination of justice and prejudice in a jury room.

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The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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Roger Ebert

"It is a masterpiece of stylized realism--the style coming in the way the photography and editing comment on the bare bones of the content."

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Reelviews

12 Angry Men is primarily about acting and dialogue. It's a murder mystery wrapped around social commentary that simultaneously indicts and celebrates the American judicial process.

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Variety

Most of the action takes place in the one room on a hot summer day. The effect, rather than being confining, serves to heighten the drama.

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Rotten Tomatoes

A film whose action takes almost completely in the deliberation room of a jury may sound as if it's going to be awfully dry or uninteresting, but on the contrary, '12 Angry Men' is powerful and stirring.

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IMDb

This once-in-a-generation masterpiece simply has no equal.

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Cinelysium

This film is among the best, despite the fact that the phrase is frequently used because it is so simple to say about outstanding movies like this.

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This film blew me away; how ignorant can I be about old films? How many other pre-1960s gems are there out there that I haven't seen?

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