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The Juror movie storyline. Annie Laird (Demi Moore) is a sculptor who lives in New York with her son Oliver (Joseph Gordon-Levitt); she works a day job as a data entry clerk. Annie is selected to be a juror in the trial of mob boss Louie Boffano (Tony Lo Bianco), who is accused of ordering the murder of Salvatore Riggio.
Mark Cordell (Alec Baldwin) buys some of Annie’s artwork and then wines and dines her before she discovers he is better known as “The Teacher”, Boffano’s enforcer and the actual perpetrator of Riggio’s murder. Mark tells Annie to persuade the jury to acquit Boffano, or she and Oliver will die.
A frightened Annie convinces the jury to acquit Boffano. After the trial, Boffano questions whether Annie should “disappear”, seeing her as a loose end. Mark convinces Boffano otherwise. Mark goes after Annie’s friend Juliet (Anne Heche). After having sex with her, Mark reveals himself to be Annie’s stalker. He pulls a gun and forces Juliet to take a fatal drug overdose. Mark boasts of Juliet’s murder to Eddie (James Gandolfini), who also works for Boffano but unlike Mark, is sympathetic to Annie as he is a parent himself.
To ensure her son’s safety, Annie hides Oliver in the village of T’ui Cuch, Guatemala. The prosecutor, who figured out Annie was threatened, wants Annie to turn state’s witness so they can go after Mark, who now plans to take over Boffano’s empire.
Annie convinces the prosecutor to let her wear a wire in a scheduled meeting with Mark. Annie removes the wire and gives it to Eddie, insinuating she and Mark are now a couple. Annie then succeeds in getting Mark to incriminate himself in a boastful rant about his ambitions, which she tapes on a hidden tape recorder. She uses the tape to tip off Boffano, who schedules a meeting with Mark.
The Juror is a 1996 American crime thriller drama film based on the 1995 novel by George Dawes Green. It was directed by Brian Gibson and stars Demi Moore as a single mother picked for jury duty for a mafia trial and Alec Baldwin as a mobster sent to intimidate her. Other starring are Alec Baldwin, James Gandolfini, Lindsay Crouse, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Heche, Tony Lo Bianco, Michael Constantine and Matt Craven.
The Juror (1996)
Directed by: Brian Gibson
Starring: Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, James Gandolfini, Lindsay Crouse, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Heche, Tony Lo Bianco, Michael Constantine, Matt Craven
Screenplay by: Ted Tally
Production Design by: Jan Roelfs
Cinematography by: Jamie Anderson
Film Editing by: Robert M. Reitano
Costume Design by: Colleen Atwood
Set Decoration by: Leslie Pope
Art Direction by: Charley Beal
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language and sexuality.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: February 2, 1996
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