About this episode

The episode reviews the classic film '12 Angry Men' and discusses its themes of reasonable doubt and prejudice.

This week on Bad Dads Film Review, we review Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men, the 1957 jury-room classic starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb. A young man’s life is on the line. Eleven jurors are ready to convict. One juror wants to talk. From that simple setup, the film becomes a tense, brilliantly engineered argument about reasonable doubt, prejudice, memory, class, personal baggage and the terrifying confidence of people who think they are definitely right. What we covered The beautifully simp...

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Host: Bad Dads

Topics covered

• film review
• jury-room drama
• reasonable doubt
• prejudice
• memory
• class
• personal baggage

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 12 Angry Men

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