It is not necessarily easy for a film that is over 65 years old to make today’s viewer laugh, relate or engage, and this film succeeds in doing just that. Set in the era of Prohibition, it explores avant-garde themes such as gender and sexuality, even verging on LGBTQ+ themes. Marilyn Monroe is sublime, and although her character is candid, so are all the characters in the film (meaning also the men - which does not make it a disparaging…
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12 Angry Men 1997
So brilliant. The only reason I did not review it 5 stars is because there is no woman.
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