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(L.A. Theatre Works)
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1 hours, 50 minutes
File Size:
50 MB (2 files)

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Review by Amy Monaghan, eMusic

A gripping juror room drama.
In a cramped jurors' room on a hot August afternoon, 12 men drawn from all walks of life must sit in judgment on a fellow citizen who's far from model. A blowhard pushes to condemn the defendant because he has tickets to that night's ballgame. Another opines that he knows how "those people" are. When the foreman calls the first vote, it's eleven-to-one to convict. The lone holdout, the never-named Juror Eight, resists a quick decision of guilty, much to the frustration of his peers. With quiet determination, he walks the other jurors back through the details of the case to explain why his reasonable doubt exists. This gripping American drama first saw the light of day as a teleplay in 1957, but soon after it leapt from the cathode-ray confines of the small screen to the bright lights of Broadway and later Hollywood. Dan Castellaneta (yes, the voice of everyman Homer J. Simpson) and his cast mates deliver riveting performances.

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