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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: Bfs Entertainment
Salesrank: 41326
Released: September 23, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
As Seen on Masterpiece Theatre
"Gripping and reassuringly thoughtful... first-rate" – The New York Times
"Excellent entertainment beautifully done." – The Guardian
"Absorbing, melancholy and excellently performed... Intelligent" – Daily News of Los Angeles
It’s not just the accused whose life hangs in the balance
With the epic feel of a real-life murder trial, this TV miniseries, starring Derek Jacobi (The Golden Compass), Tim Healy (Shadow Run) and Gerard Butler (300), is the first show ever allowed to be filmed in London’s famous Old Bailey courthouse.
Duvinder Singh (Sonnell Dadral – Syriana) is a mild-mannered teenager who has committed a brutal murder… or has he? Twelve jurors have been summoned into court to decide. However, the outraged family members of the victim have already decided and are so hell-bent on an immediate conviction that they may just have to pay some of the jury members a little visit.
By deliberately obscuring the events of the murder, viewers of The Jury are virtually seated in the jury box, learning about the events only as they unfold in the trial and keeping viewers at home guessing along with the jurors, forcing them to question the defendant’s innocence or guilt right up to the gripping final scene.
A comprehensive six-part series of a shocking murder trial and the jurors affected by it, The Jury stands as a reminder that it is not just the accused whose lives hang in the balance.
The Jury Reviews:
good piece of work! 
2009-06-22 - This was a very interesting piece of film making. Moving around behind the central story of murder there are several other stories of what I might call "the concrete answer". I found the priest to be especially fascinating and the man who lost it all but had difficulty playing market this one more time. Then there's the lady whose trapped in an abusive marriage; psychological prison. Then the most intriguing, the alcoholic who is trying desperately to climb out of the past entanglements with drink. This was five hours well spent - the story tell us very plainly; there is NO concrete answer to any of our work on this earth!
The Jury 
2009-05-17 - It starts out slow. Show how prejudice can overtake a person during grief. People are human. The stories within the story are good. Butler did a great job protraying an alcoholic. Great actor.
Nondescript -- Save Your Money 
2009-04-18 - A story about a trial and jury deliberations. Stronger focus on jurors than others of its genre. Reasonable character development. Nothing in any category that stands out. For other British TV/cinema products that you will remember much longer than this one, see reviews I and others have written.
Very Bad Photography! 
2009-01-04 - "The Jury", shot with multiple cameras, all apparently hand-held, is the worst photographed Granada Television feature I've ever seen! Strictly amateur throughout Part 1,that I just watched [3 January 2009]. My rating--because of bad photography--jerky, badly edited, heads cut-off in extreme close-ups--I give this turkey 1 star [or half a star!].
Great Ensemble Piece
2008-12-30 - I was so impressed (and smitten) by Gerard Butler in The Phantom of the Opera that I picked up The Jury just to see more of him. I did see more -- I saw an actor of great range in a gentle, achingly realistic portrayal of a recovering alcoholic finding his way sober. His contribution was beautiful and I loved it. And happily, there is much more to The Jury.
This is an ensemble piece. The cast includes Derek Jacobi, Helen McCrory, Sylvia Syms, Nicholas Farrell, Sonnell Dadral, and many equally talented actors, each wearing heart on sleeve. We glimpse into the lives of these jurors, selected at random and pulled from their routines to serve. Their stories are touching and true-to-life. In fact, having recently ended an important but failed relationship of my own, I was stunned to find my feelings of grief and loss mirrored in the life of one of the jurors.
It is also a compelling crime story depicting the trial of a Sikh teenager accused of the violent slashing murder of a classmate who had tormented him. The trial unfolds through unembellished evidence and testimony. While not portrayed minute-to-minute, this aspect of the show is scripted so well that you feel you are in the public gallery. We struggle too as each juror endeavors to sort through the facts of this horrifying crime to come to a verdict -- the right verdict. The overwhelming responsibility of their task is revealed in its time. The script does not lead you to jump to conclusions; the outcome is believeable and not completely comfortable.
The musical score is very moving. The locations and editing are perfect and depict a modern "London" inhabited by these diverse jurors. I am traveling to London soon and plan to visit The Old Bailey so that I can see "Justice" for myself. I give The Jury five gold stars.
