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“Juror #2” will stream exclusively on Max starting Dec. 20.
The Clint Eastwood-helmed courtroom thriller, which marks the 94 year-old filmmaker’s 40th directorial effort, and possibly his last, premiered at AFI Fest in October. After being originally slated as a straight-to-streaming release, Warner Bros. did ultimately put out the feature in a limited release of less than 50 theaters, a peculiar hush-hush approach for such a commercial filmmaker.
The film stars Nicholas Hoult as a a “family man Justin Kemp who, while serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict — or free — the accused killer.” The trailer shows Hoult’s character driving late at night and potentially hitting a deer that was in the road. However, a year later he’s called for jury duty about a murder case that he realizes may have a connection to his “deer” run-in.
The cast also includes Zoey Deutch, Toni Collette, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb and Kiefer Sutherland.
Popular on Variety In his review, Variety film critic Peter DeBruge writes that the film “registers as something of an anomaly in [Eastwood’s] oeuvre: It ranks among his quietest films, forgoing spectacle in favor of self-reflection. One could argue the whole system is on trial, and yet, the only angry man here is Eastwood, not the jurors, as Dirty Harry goes out not with a bang but an ambivalent whisper.”
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