How to create suspense without leaving one room (most of the time)

Rating: 9/10 (21 February 2007)

*12 Angry SPOILERS*
12 men (Ed Begley, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam, E.G. Marshall, John Fiedler, Jack Warden, Edward Binns, George Voskovec, Joseph Sweeney, Robert Webber and Henry Fonda) are part of a jury that has to decide whether a young man, accused of his abusive father's murder, should be sent to the electric chair.
11 are convinced of the man's guilt.
1 isn't.
The other jurors aren't happy, but they will soon find out that the man has more than a reason to be doubtful...
A unique movie, used as a template for episodes of countless TV shows (Veronica Mars, Touched By An Angel, The Dead Zone, MacGyver, Charmed...) and even remade for TV in the late '90s (curious, since it is a big-screen version of a TV-Movie), '12 Angry jurors works because of the diverse characters, and of their complexity and reasons - or total lack thereof, for one of them - for voting guilty, and how each and every one of them revisits the situation and understands he has overlooked something, in their rush to be free from that burden as soon as they could.
Little trivia bit - it was the only movie that Henry Fonda ever produced.
12 Angry Men - 9/10.