A 1957 film by Sidney Lumet in which a single juror forces eleven others to examine their assumptions about guilt in a murder trial.
Established the deliberation chamber as a space for examining American democracy, prejudice, and the individual conscience — the template for Lumet's career-long interest in how institutions compress or release moral judgment.
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