On a hot summer's day 12 men will be deciding the unlikely fate of a young man who has been accused of killing his own father. Most of the evidence points to the young man as being guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Until one man stands up for true justice, and protects the kid from an unpredictable ending to the movie. .
12 men on a jury cram into a little office with the table being almost the size of the room. Its extremely hot and some people in there are more worried about other obligations then sentencing a man to prison for a crime. Once the jurors got into the room a vote was immediately taken. All the Jurors accept one.
Voted guilty. Jack Lemmon ( Juror 8 ) claimed that the boy was innocent. He took on an enormous amount of pressure and was also kicked around because of the decision he had made. Jack goes on and tells a very convincing story on how the young boy was innocent. While he would try convincing his story to everyone in the courtroom, there was one juror who thought Jack had his story all wrong and felt he was breaking his oath. George C. Scott was that man ( Juror 3). George felt cold heartedly that the young boy was guilty and became stubborn and hard headed and felt he was 100% right given the facts the were given in the case.
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As George would say, Lemmon acted as if he was the boys lawyer, and brought up very good points about some of the witnesses that had testified. On each occasion at least 1 vote had switched from guilty to not guilty, except the 5-6th time a vote was taken. George would soon become alone by the 9th and final time of voting and be in the shoes that Lemmon was at the beginning of the movie. Soon enough George gave in and the young man was found not guilty.
My point of view of the case was that the young man was Guilty, once I had overheard the facts that were given. It wasn't until Lemmon had stepped up to the bat and convinced me that the boy was innocent and could have simply not have been placed in the scene where the crime was committed.