As we approach this year’s Academy Awards, I’ve been thinking about the best picture of 1957, director Sidney Lumet’s “12 Angry Men.” If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth watching. It’s a terrific courtroom drama – or, more precisely, a jury room drama, as twelve jurors (this was nearly 70 years ago, so they were all men, all white) try to reach a verdict in a murder trial where a teenage boy is accused of killing his abusive father. At the start of the movie, all the jurors e...
