JUROR #2 – Review by Susan Granger
While Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2 is a compelling courtroom drama, the even bigger mystery is why Warner Bros. only briefly released it in 50 theaters before it began streaming exclusively on HBO Max. Free-lance writer Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) is summoned to jury duty in Savannah, Georgia on a murder case. The trial begins. After a night of drinking and arguing with her boyfriend, James Sythe (Gabriel Basso), Kendall Carter (Francesca Eastwood) leaves the roadside bar in a rainstorm. Witnesses saw them fighting and remember him chasing her out to the parking lot. Later, her corpse is found on rocks beneath a nearby bridge. Recovering alcoholic Justin is confused about the details of his own automobile accident that same night and confesses to his AA sponsor (Kiefer Sutherland) that he perhaps knows more than he’d like to admit.
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