While his wife (Zoey Deutch) is at home with a high risk pregnancy, a recovering alcoholic (Nicholas Hoult) is serving on a murder jury. As the trial progresses, to his horror, he realizes that he may have been responsible for the victim's death, not the man (Gabriel Basso) on trial! Directed by Clint Eastwood (UNFORGIVEN). This is a terrific courtroom drama that got screwed over by its studio, Warner Brothers. You would think a film by a two time Oscar winning director (Eastwood) would get better treatment. This is a quality movie that should have been nurtured and prepared for the Oscar season (yes, it's that good) but inexplicably Warners give it a few half hearted dates briefly in some major cities then went directly to streaming! It received excellent reviews. Eastwood injects the necessary tension required in a good courtroom thriller but he clearly has other things on his mind than just thrills. The uncomfortable ambiguity of a justice where a good man (Hoult) can have his life ruined, a decent District Attorney (Toni Collette) confronting that justice isn't always fair and should a "bad" person be punished for something he did not do. Eastwood doesn't give us answers, he leaves it up to us. Worth seeking out. With Kiefer Sutherland, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina and Amy Aquino.
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