It's common practice for actors to double as producers on their star vehicles. Sometimes a film needs the backing of a star to get made or the actor just wants to make sure their passion project goes right. The downside to this is that if the film fails, then the blowback on the actor is all the worse. Henry Fonda learned this lesson on the sole film he produced, and the experience is why he never did so again. That film was none other than "12 Angry Men."
A classic courtroom drama and the feature debut of director Sidney Lumet, "12 Angry Men" features jurors weighing the fate of a boy accused of killing his father. Fonda, the lone movie star among a sea of character actors, plays Juror #8, the only one unconvinced of the defendant's guilt. The drama of the film comes from him trying to sway 11 other men's minds.
A classic courtroom drama and the feature debut of director Sidney Lumet, "12 Angry Men" features jurors weighing the fate of a boy accused of killing his father. Fonda, the lone movie star among a sea of character actors, plays Juror #8, the only one unconvinced of the defendant's guilt. The drama of the film comes from him trying to sway 11 other men's minds.
- 1/14/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
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