May as Well Be Me (2012)

Actors: Bryan Royston (actor), Joey Broyles (writer), Joey Broyles (miscellaneous crew), Nathan Lowe (actor), Trezy (director), Trezy (editor), Shawn Tallard (actor), Pa Moua (actress), Paul Kijak (actor), Jonah Westrich (actor), Brandon Barwick (actor), Jessica Riphenburg (actress), Sun Voyage (composer),

Plot: We venture with Shawn in his attempts to woo an exceptionally beautiful woman with his extremely average charm in a world where one wrong move can end up attracting the Date Police. Shawn struggles through imprisonment, the press, and a full-blown trial to exemplify the correlations between love and being under the scrutiny of a judge and jury.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music, Short,

The Evidence (2012)

Actors: Ed Moy (actor), Sonny Aguirre Jr. (writer), Sonny Aguirre Jr. (producer), Reid Martin Basso (actor), Chang-min River Hyun (writer), Chang-min River Hyun (director), Chang-min River Hyun (editor), Jimmy T. Cappels (actor), Daniel Valent (actor), Oth Khotsimeuang (actor), Koeun Joo (composer), Hong Min Kim (editor), Hana Robleh (actress), Peter Kang (actor), Yuna Kim (writer),

Plot: In a heated dispute, two parties are determined to win a legal case to prove that hypnosis can be regarded as genuine evidence. One party exhibits a surveillance video of a unforeseen turn of events involving five strangers trapped in a occult building.

Keywords: court, hypnosis, independent-film, non-fiction
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,

Lord (2011)

Actors: Eric W. Sizemore (actor), Rachel Lynn Jackson (actress), A. Lawrence Dreyfuss (writer), A. Lawrence Dreyfuss (director), Patrick McCarty (actor), Jake Sanders (actor),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Courting with Justice (2009)

Actors: Roy Billing (actor), Tim Count (composer), Keith Van Geyzel (composer), Debbie Carmody (writer), Debbie Carmody (director), Natalie Bell (producer), Teresa Ashton Graham (editor),

Plot: A former Norseman pub manager was charged with the manslaughter of Kevin Rule, a member of the Ngadju Nation, but later found not guilty. The dead man's partner, Daniella Borg, is certain the manager's lethal punch killed Kevin and feels the Australian Judicial System has not provided her with justice. Daniella has decided to have a re-trial. This time it is to be set on Kevin's lands, within the framework of the oldest law in the land. The case is going before an Indigenous Customary Law Court. Posing the question - what if the Australian legal system was not based on the British model but rather on one of the oldest Law systems in the world, Indigenous Australian Customary Law?

Keywords: customary, indigenous, law
Genres: Documentary, Short,
Taglines: Courting with Justice poses the question - what if the Australian legal system was not

Traces (2006)

Actors: Thomas VanOosting (composer), Peter VanOosting (director), Peter VanOosting (producer), Peter VanOosting (writer), Peter VanOosting (editor), Theshia Naidoo (actress), Ruthesh Naidoo (actor), Doreen Lee (composer),

Plot: Traces is a minimalist drama about guilt. A man is forced to wrestle with events from his past when he believes that someone else has discovered his secret. He works methodically to cover his tracks and to discover identity of the author of an incriminating note.

Genres: Crime, Short,

12 Angry Men (1997)

Actors: William Friedkin (director), Hume Cronyn (actor), Tony Danza (actor), Ossie Davis (actor), James Gandolfini (actor), Dorian Harewood (actor), Jack Lemmon (actor), Armin Mueller-Stahl (actor), Edward James Olmos (actor), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Mary McDonnell (actress), George C. Scott (actor), Douglas Spain (actor), Courtney B. Vance (actor), Reginald Rose (writer),

Plot: Made for cable television remake of the 1957 classic about twelve jurors quick to condemn a Latino youth on trial for murdering his father before reviewing the evidence. Juror #8 holds out with a verdict of not guilty, thus setting the stage for arguments and reasons why or why not the boy may be guilty.

Keywords: all-male-jury, courtroom, dialogue-driven, jury, law, murder, number-in-title, power, real-time
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Juror #3: Reasonable doubt! That's nothing but words.

Juror #3: It's one of those open and shut things. They proved it ten different ways.

Juror #8: Suppose we're wrong.

Juror #10: I've lived among them all my life. They're born liars.

Juror #10: Don't give me those facts. I'm sick and tired of facts.

Juror #10: The kid's a punk, he don't even speak good English!::Juror #11: He doesn't even speak good English

Juror #5: I used to play in a backyard that was filled with garbage. Maybe it still smells on me.

Juror #8: Ever since we've walked into this room, you've acted like a self-appointed public avenger!::Juror #3: Shut up...::Juror #8: You want the boy to die for your own personal reasons, not because of the facts!::[Juror #3 tries to get his hands on Juror #8, but some other jurors hold him back]::Juror #8: You're a sadist!::Juror #3: I'll kill ya!::Juror #8: You don't really mean you'll kill me, do you?

Juror #4: Gentlemen, let me remind you this case is based on a reasonable and logical progression of facts. Please, let's keep it.::Juror #11: Facts may be coated by the personalities of the people who present them. Let's not forget that.

Fiddlesticks (1993)

Actors: Timothy A. Bennett (writer), Timothy A. Bennett (actor), Timothy A. Bennett (editor), Timothy A. Bennett (director), Timothy A. Bennett (producer), Graham Elwood (actor), Graham Elwood (writer), Graham Elwood (producer), Paul Goebel (producer), Paul Goebel (actor), Paul Goebel (writer), Jim Bruce (writer), Jim Bruce (producer), Jim Bruce (actor), Michael Hartigan (writer),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

12 Angry Men (1957)

Actors: Martin Balsam (actor), Ed Begley (actor), Edward Binns (actor), Jack Klugman (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Billy Nelson (actor), George Voskovec (actor), Jack Warden (actor), Robert Webber (actor), Henry Fonda (producer), Sidney Lumet (director), Faith Hubley (miscellaneous crew), Lee J. Cobb (actor), John Fiedler (actor), Henry Fonda (actor),

Plot: The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.

Keywords: advertising-executive, all-male-cast, all-male-jury, architect, argument, bank-clerk, baseball-ticket, based-on-tv-movie, coach, conversation
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Life Is In Their Hands -- Death Is On Their Minds! ...it explodes like twelve sticks of dynamite! They have twelve scraps of paper... Twelve chances to kill!

Quotes:

Juror #6: [when Juror #8 asks him to "suppose" the defendant's innocence] Well, I'm not used to supposin'. I'm just a workin' man. My boss does all the supposin', but I'll try one. Supposin' you talk us all out of this, and, uh, the kid really did knife his father?

Juror #10: [the vote has become 9-3, enraging Juror #10] I don't understand you people! I mean all these picky little points you keep bringing up. They don't mean nothing! You saw this kid just like I did. You're not gonna tell me you believe that phony story about losing the knife, and that business about being at the movies. Look, you know how these people *lie!* It's *born* in them! I mean, what the heck? I don't have to tell you! They don't know what the truth *is!* And lemme tell ya: they don't need any real big reason to kill someone, either! No *sir!*::[#5 slams the paper down, gets up from his seat]::Juror #10: They get drunk! Oh, they're real big drinkers, all of 'em - you know that - and bang: someone's lyin' in the gutter! Oh, nobody's blaming them for it. That's the way they are, by nature! You know what I mean? *Violent!*::Juror #10: [#9 rises and crosses to the window] Where're you going? Human life don't mean as much to them as it does to us!::[#11 gets up and walks to the other window]::Juror #10: Look, they're lushing it up and fighting all the time and if somebody gets killed, so somebody gets killed! They don't care! Oh, sure, there are some good things about 'em, too! Look, I'm the first one to say that!::Juror #10: [#8 gets up and walks to the nearest wall] I've known a couple who were OK, but that's the exception, y'know what I mean? Most of 'em, it's like they have no feelings! They can do anything!::[#2 and #6 get up from the table. Everyone's back is to #10]::Juror #10: [looking around, starting to decline in volume] What's goin' on here? I'm trying to tell ya... You're makin' a big mistake, you people! This kid is a liar! I know it, I know all about them! Listen to me... They're no good! There's not a one of 'em who is any good! I mean, what's happening in here? I'm speaking my piece, and you...::[the Foreman gets up and walks away. So does #12]::Juror #10: Listen to me. We're... This kid on trial here... his type, well, don't you know about them? There's a, there's a danger here. These people are dangerous. They're wild. Listen to me. Listen.::Juror #4: [quietly and firmly] I have. Now sit down and don't open your mouth again.::[beat]::Juror #10: [the shock of being ignored and silenced sinking in] I'm jus' tryin'-a... tell ya...

Juror #8: It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities - we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.

[last lines]::Juror #9: Hey!... What's your name?::Juror #8: Davis.::Juror #9: [shakes his hand] My name's McCardle.::[pause]::Juror #9: Well, so long.::Juror #8: So long.

Juror #10: Oh, listen, I don't see what all this stuff about the knife has got to do with anything. Somebody saw the kid stab his father, what more do we need? You guys can talk the ears right off my head, you know what I mean? I got three garages of mine going to pot while you're talking! So let's get down and get out of here!

Juror #7: You a Yankee fan?::Juror #5: No, Baltimore.::Juror #7: Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crowbar once a day.

Juror #3: [when Juror #11 questions whether the boy would return home to retrieve the knife] Look, you voted guilty. What side are ya on?::Juror #11: I don't believe I have to be loyal to one side or the other. I'm simply asking questions.

Juror #8: [after conducting an experiment to see if the old man could have reached his door in 15 seconds] Here's what I think happened: the old man heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Then, when he's lying in his bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy's apartment, heard the woman scream from across the street, got to his front door as fast as he could, heard somebody racing down the stairs and *assumed* it was the boy!::Juror #6: I think that's possible!::Juror #3: [from the other side of the room] *"Assumed"?*::[Everyone looks at #3 as he chuckles]::Juror #3: Brother, I've seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day, but this little display takes the cake. Y'all come in here with your hearts bleedin' all over the floor about slum kids and injustice, you listen to some fairy tales... Suddenly, you start gettin' through to some of these old ladies. Well, you're not getting through to me, I've had enough.::[starts shouting]::Juror #3: What's the *matter* with you guys? You all *know* he's guilty! He's *got* to burn! You're letting him slip through our fingers!::Juror #8: [brow furrowing] "Slip through our fingers"? Are you his executioner?::Juror #3: I'm one of 'em!::Juror #8: ...Perhaps you'd like to pull the switch?::Juror #3: For this kid? You bet I would!::Juror #8: [baiting him] I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you *personally* want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!::[#3 lunges wildly at #8, who holds his ground. Several jurors hold #3 back]::Juror #3: I'll kill him! I'll - *kill him!*::Juror #8: [calmly] You don't *really* mean you'll kill me, do you?

Juror #8: [taking a cough drop that Juror #2 offered him] There's something else I'd like to talk about for a minute. Thanks. I think we've proved that the old man couldn't have heard the boy say "I'm gonna kill you", but supposing he did...::Juror #10: [interrupting] You didn't prove it at all. What're you talking about?::Juror #8: But supposing he really *did* hear it. This phrase, how many times have all of us used it? Probably thousands. "I could kill you for that, darling." "Junior, you do that once more and I'm gonna kill you." "Get in there, Rocky, and kill him!"... See, we say it every day. That doesn't mean we're gonna kill anyone.::Juror #3: Wait a minute, what are you trying to give us here? The phrase was "I'm gonna kill you"; the kid yelled it at the top of his lungs... Don't tell me he didn't mean it! Anybody says a thing like that the way he said it, they mean it!::Juror #2: Well, gee now, I don't know. [Everyone looks at #2] I remember I was arguing with the guy I work next to at the bank a couple of weeks ago. He called me an idiot, so I yelled at him.::Juror #3: [pointing at #8] Now listen, this guy's tryin' to make you believe things that aren't so! The kid said he was gonna kill him, and he *did* kill him!::Juror #8: Let me ask you this: do you really think the kid would shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him? I don't think so; he's much to bright for that.::Juror #10: Bright? He's a common, ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English.::Juror #11: [looking up] He *doesn't* even speak good English.

[Juror 8 has convinced everyone to change their votes to "not guilty" - except for Juror 3]::Juror #7: Well, what do we do now?::Juror #8: [to #3] You're alone.::Juror #3: I don't care whether I'm alone or not! It's my right.::Juror #8: [nods] It's your right. [beat]::Juror #3: Well, what do you want? I say he's guilty.::Juror #8: We want to hear your arguments.::Juror #3: I *gave* you my arguments!::Juror #8: We're not convinced. We want to hear them again. We have as much time as it takes.::Juror #3: [another pause, seething with anger] Everything - *every single thing* that took place in that courtroom, but I mean everything - says he's guilty. What d'ya think, I'm an idiot or somethin'? [gets out of his seat] Why don'tcha take that stuff about the old man - the old man who *lived* there and heard *every*thing? Or this business about the knife! What, 'cause we found one exactly like it? The old man *saw* him! Right there on the stairs! What's the difference how many seconds it was? Every single thing... The knife falling through a hole in his pocket... You can't *prove* he didn't get to the door! Sure, you can take all the time, hobblin' around the room, but you can't prove it! And what about this business with the El? And the movies! There's a phony deal if I ever heard one. I betcha five thousand dollars I'd remember the movies I saw! I'm tellin' ya, every thing that's gone on has been twisted... and turned! [points at Juror #8] This business with the glasses? How do *you* know she didn't have 'em on? This woman testified in open court! And what about hearin' the kid yell? Huh? I'm tellin' ya, I've got all the facts here...::Juror #3: [struggles with his notebook] Here... Ah. [He throws it on the table. The photo of him with his son is on top] Well, that's it - that's the whole case!::[He turns towards the window as the other jurors stare at him; he turns back to them]::Juror #3: Well? *Say* something! [No one obliges; everyone is focused on him] You lousy bunch of bleedin' 'earts... You're not goin' to intimidate me - I'm *entitled* to my opinion!::[He sees the picture of his son on the table]::Juror #3: Rotten kids, you work your life out...!::[He grabs the picture and tears it to pieces. He suddenly realizes what he's doing and breaks down]::Juror #3: ...no. Not guilty. Not guilty.

Stung (1931)

Actors: Maurice Black (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Fred Howard (actor), Crauford Kent (actor), Warner Richmond (actor), Amadee J. Van Beuren (producer), John Hyams (actor), William J. Cowen (director), William J. Cowen (writer),

Plot: A trial is being held with the accused man apparently guilty of murder, but his lawyer is pleading his case as justifiable manslaughter because the victim was a racketeer that deserved to be killed. But in the jury room only one juror is holding out for manslaughter.

Keywords: 1930s, bailiff, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes, defense-lawyer, deliberation, drinking, evidence, flashback, gangster
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short,