{"id":23798,"date":"2025-01-03T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2025-01-03T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:14:16","slug":"juror-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/juror-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Juror #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I will protect our family. I promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juror #2<\/strong>, released in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Justin is selected for jury duty. He doesn&#8217;t really want to do it because his wife Allison is having a tricky pregnancy. It&#8217;s a murder trial but the judge says the trial won&#8217;t take long. Once the prosecutor starts describing the story, Justin realizes he was there that day. He thought he hit a deer with his car, but it is now clear to him that he hit the victim &#8212; and the accused is innocent.<\/p>\n<p>Once you start watching this movie, you&#8217;ll want to find out what happens.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a situation you hope you&#8217;re never in, whether people can change, and getting to the bottom of things.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation near the end between Justin and the prosecutor is astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, and Zoey Deutch. Directed by Clint Eastwood (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/mystic-river\/\"><strong>Mystic River<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;I will protect our family. I promise.&#8221; Juror #2, released in 2024 Justin is selected for jury duty. He doesn&#8217;t really want to do it because his wife Allison is having a tricky pregnancy. It&#8217;s a murder trial but the judge says the trial won&#8217;t take long. Once the prosecutor starts describing the story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23811,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}