Had to watch it in school. I liked it.

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2004)

I watched this movie in school (I think it was 7th grade). If I were a teacher I would have kids watching movies all the time!!! Anyway, this movie is a drama, and the 12 Angry Men are jurors in a murder case(I guess this was back in the day when women didn't serve on juries?). The movie is about one Juror (#8) and his attempts to convince the other 11 that the young man accused of murder is not guilty.
I don't know if this is considered a spoiler or not but the best part of the whole movie is the dramatic exchange between Juror #8 (the guy who thinks the accused might not be guilty) and Juror #3 (the bombastic juror) near the end of the show.
**warning don't read if you don't like spoilers. While I'm not sure if the following is a spoiler, the IMDb is pretty strict about spoiling movies in reviews. They say I will be blacklisted. Whatever, you've been warned, now back to the best part of the movie.**
Juror #3 says, "I'll kill you!" or "I'm gonna kill you" or something like that and Juror #8 says, "You don't really mean that do you?" Then Juror #3 gets this wonderful sequence of expressions on his face of anger turning into confusion turning into disgust turning into defeat turning into confusion. Yeah, I think he shows confusion twice. He's initially confused at the rapidity and perspicacity of Juror #8's retort and then finally confused about how he could have been wrong all along. What is so brilliant about this sequence (aside from the wonderful acting - reminiscent of a scene in an episode of Quantum Leap where Sam sings "Imagine" to his younger sister and her expression goes through a sequence of changes - but boy is that way off-topic) is the setup and payoff. Juror #3 is so convinced the accused is guilty, especially since the accused was heard by someone (it's been a while since I've seen the movie so forgive me if I'm not entirely accurate here) to have said, "I'm gonna kill you" or "her" or whatever. Then Juror #8 lays a trap for #3 and he walks right in - and it's some good viewin'. See I didn't even spoil it all that much. I didn't even tell you how it ends. It ends well. Oops did I spoil it? 8/10