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Released
1997 · FILM

12 Angry Men

Directed by
William Friedkin
Written by
Reginald Rose
Runtime
117 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

In the trial of a man accused of killing his father, one juror challenges the unanimous guilty verdict reached by the rest of the jury, arguing that their decision is based on bias and assumptions rather than the evidence.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Augie HessShot by Fred SchulerDesigned by Bill Malley

Box Office

1997 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.0M

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$2.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Die zwölf Geschworenende
  • Doce hombres sin piedad: Veredicto finales
  • Douze hommes en colèrefr
  • La parola ai giuratiit

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