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is this the only jury room film?


There's been numerous courtroom films, but has there ever been another jury room concentrate? The only ones I have seen have been spoofs or remakes of this. It absolutely scratched the itch for this scenario.

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There is a brilliant episode from ¨The Good Wife¨ that focuses on the jury deliberating in the room, with flashbacks to evidence and it has a very amazing ending as well..

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A brilliant episode of the 90s show Picket Fences as well.

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Paulie Shore. Jury Duty.

~~~"Who do you think you're dealing with? Guess again."~~~

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The RUnaway Jury

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I was just going to mention this one, movieghoul. :) Another great courtroom/jury film. I also love the Paul Newman film The Verdict and Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men. Neither are jury room films in the same vein as 12 Angry Men but both excellent films nonetheless.

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Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty (Episode 16, Season 4, 2006, Monk TV series)


Yafai M.

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The 2007 Oscar-nominated Russian film "12": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/

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Which is a remake of this. And the OP clearly asked about films aside from remakes of this.

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12 Angry Men (1997 TV version), 12 Angry Men (2005), 12 (2007 Russian film), Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty (Episode 16, Season 4, 2006, Monk TV series), One Angry Veronica (Episode 10, Season 2, 2005, Veronica Mars TV series), Die zwölf Geschworenen (1963 German film), Ek Ruka Hua Faisla or “A Pending Decision” (1986 Hindi film), 12 Angry Lebanese (2009 Lebanese documentary), 12 Citizens (2004 Chinese film)

Yafai M.

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What part of the OP saying "no spoofs or remakes of this" you didn't understand? All the titles you mention are either spoofs or remakes of the original 12 Angry Men.

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Ooops! I must have missed that part. My bad..


Yafai M.

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There is a dramatic play that ran off off Broadway called Jury Duty nothing close to that horrible Pauly Shore movie. Runaway Jury was good, and remember from the mid to late 90's The Juror with Demi Moore and Trial by Jury two similar plot and not so great movies. One of my favorites is The Verdict with the late, great Paul Newman and Jack Warden, directed by Sidney Lumet, David Mamet screenplay. Great acting all around but Newman was outstanding as Frank Galvin, especially the scene where he goes to Deborah Ann Kaye's bedside to photographer her before meeting with a corrupt Judge and defense attorney in the Judges office. No words were spoken but the realization of what happened to her shows up on Frank's face, no dialogue that is and was great acting. I watch this movie at least twice a year and still get the chills when I see that scene. As the Polaroid image starts to get clearer so does Frank. I met the actor who played Kevin Doneghy once, character actor James Handy and asked him about working with Paul Newman. He said great guy, down-to-earth and very willing to help some of the other actor who might need help with a scene, and very giving about advice. He had a few small roles, not many lines before being cast in The Verdict. Newman told him to try out for everything in the beginning. For a time Newman regretted doing some film roles but realized he had to do them in order to become the actor he became, being afford some great parts, with amazing directors. He said I wasn't the first to ask, and I probably wouldn't be the last.

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The Rural Juror

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