A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.
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.
A boy allegedly murdering his father by stabbing is the central crime of the film, and is discussed at length. This stabbing is never shown, though the murder weapon and another similar weapon appear in the jury room. Talk about knife fights and other violence, though none of it is actually shown on screen.
profanity
One use of "damn."
alcohol
Some of the jurors smoke.
frightening
The main theme of the film is a murder. Sometimes the men get aggressively angry and frustrated in the jury room, a couple of times almost resorting to physical aggression with each other.
BBFC - (U) Descriptions of violence.
Suggested MPAA Rating: PG for thematic material and brief language
