12 Angry Men

(1957)

★ 9 IMDb · 10,345 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1957

Runtime: 97 min

Country: United States of America

Director: Сидни Люмет

Cast: Мартин Болсам, Джон Фидлер, Ли Джей Кобб, Э. Г. Маршалл, Джек Клагмен

Plot

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.

The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, AND each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.