12

I was channel surfing late last night and stumbled across this movie: "12". What an excellent movie! Missed the beginning, but it wasn't that hard to figure out the plot. I've never seen '12 Angry Men', so I can't compare the movies, but it stands on its own just fine!

Plot summary of "12":

A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather who took the teenager to live with him in Moscow during the Chechen War in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia. A stray bird (a touch of New Age cinema) is flying above the jurors' heads, alluding to tolerance.