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* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Ridiculous amounts, such as when Juror #4 states outright that the murder weapon, a switchblade knife, was one-of-a-kind, with a very distinctively carved handle, and finishes his rant by ramming it blade first into the juror table, Juror #8 pulls an identical switchblade from his pocket, flicks open the blade, and rams his knife into the table right next to the original. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: By the end of at least one of the movie adaptations, jurors 3 and 8 seem to be getting along. In a way, these two had a lot in common throughout the play; each pushed for the verdict they believed in, each believed in their respective verdicts more strongly than arguably everyone else on the jury, and each were willing to go against the rest of the jury to support said verdict. It would seem somewhat fitting they would eventually get along better once the deliberations were over.
* [[Role Association]] for the 1997 TV Movie version: [[The Odd Couple|Felix Unger]] has to convince jury foreman [[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|ADA Carver]], blue collar everyman [[The Sopranos|Tony Soprano]], foreign watchmaker [[Battlestar Galactica
** Also, in the original version, Juror 2 is....[[Winnie the Pooh|Piglet?]]
* [[Tear Jerker]]: When Juror #3 finally realizes what he's doing; he tears up the picture of him and his son and just breaks down crying.
** The DVD release of the film manages to make it even worse with the chapter titles. The title of the
* [[Vindicated by History]]: The critics in 1957 were [[Critical Dissonance|rooting for]] Lumet's movie version, but the public wasn't interested and the movie failed at the box office. ''12 Angry Men'' has since earned a place in pop culture rivalled (aside from ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'') by no other courtroom drama--plus a spot on AFI's ''100 Years. . .100 Thrills'' list. No mean feat for a non-action adventure film.
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