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| 12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men (1957) is a gripping, penetrating and engrossing examination of a diverse group of twelve jurors (all male, mostly middle-aged, white and generally of middle-class status) who are uncomfortably brought together to deliberate after hearing the "facts" in a seemingly open-and-shut murder trial case. They retire to a jury room to do their civic duty and serve up a just verdict for the indigent minority defendant (with a criminal record) whose life is in the balance. The film is a powerful indictment, denouncement and expose of the trial by jury system. The frightened, teenaged defendant is on trial as well as the jury and the American judicial system with its purported sense of infallibility, fairness and lack of bias. Courthouse, Friday 15 October, 7.30 pm Tickets: €8, Imagine - Waterford Arts Festival, 051 855 038 |
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