Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

A Jury Room (And That's It)Ever since people started making movies, it's like some of them try to show off how great they are by taking an incredibly limited setting and showing what they can do in...

Third-Person (Limited)So why are we saying that the narration is "limited" in a movie where we can see everything that's going on with all the jurors? Well, we might have access to the different ju...

DramaAs far as drama goes, this movie is as dramatic as you're going to get. And as with most dramas, most of the action in this movie takes place through dialogue. The closest to action we ever re...

The number twelve is significant, of course, in that it's the number of people who serve on a jury. So we know from the get-go that this is probably going to be some kind of courtroom drama. To be...

After convincing the jury to give a Not Guilty verdict, Juror #8 walks over to #3, his nemesis, and puts his coat on for him. The gesture shows us that despite the extent to which they've argued in...

PGNo sex, no violence, no cursing—there's not much to see here, folks, and you can thank the 1950s movie industry for that. Back in those days, people thought that saying something "Darn!" would...