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The System Has Failed Clint Eastwood
With Juror No. 2, the director delivers a fine legal drama — but will anybody get to see it?
Chief among these people is Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), a journalist and recovering alcoholic who’s just been chosen to serve on a Georgia jury that will hear the case of James Michael Sythe (Gabriel Basso), an abusive lout being tried for murder. An ambitious assistant district attorney (Toni Collette) wants to convict Sythe for killing his girlfriend, Kendall Carter (Francesca Eastwood), by the side of a road one rainy night after a drunken squabble. 2 is the work of a man who hasn’t quite lost that faith; it features an entire scene in which the jurors are shown an instructional video, complete with American flags, about the justice system and the role they are playing in our democracy.
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