"The Jury" (2002) (mini)TV mini-series

Director:

Pete Travis

Writer:

Peter Morgan (writer)

Release Date:

17 February 2002 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Cast

Dimitri Andreas	...	Jan Kukos
Nathalie Armin	...	Usher
Gillian Barge	...	Eva Prohaska
Nick Bartlett	...	Prison Officer
Paul Bhattacharjee	...	Dr. Nirmal
Darren Boyd	...	Sebastian
Isabel Brook	...	Isobel
Stuart Bunce	...	Charles Gore
Richard Buss	...	Laurie Thorpe
Gerard Butler	...	Johnnie Donne
Andy Capie	...	Glazier
Sonnell Dadral	...	Duvinder Singh
Matthew Thomas Davies	...	Charlie Crawford
Glyn Dilley	...	Court Official
Matt Dineen	...	Heavy Skinhead
James Doherty	...	David Hind
Jim Dunk	...	DCI Shand
John Duttine	...	Mark Waters
Steven Emrys	...	Mr. de Jersey
Kate Fahy	...	Dr. Emma McGlade
Nicholas Farrell	...	Jeremy Crawford
Peter Gale	...	Dr. Hughes
Nitin Ganatra	...	Tariq Shah
Fiona Gillies	...	Fiona Crawford
Leo Gregory	...	Ally Maher
James Hayes	...	Father Gervase
Tim Healy	...	Eddie Fannon
Charlie Hicks	...	Sam Crawford
William Hoyland	...	Hector
Chris Humphreys	...	Paramedic
Derek Jacobi	...	George Cording QC
Tiana Paige Johnson	...	Joy Thomas
Louisa Lydell	...	TV Reporter
Michael Maloney	...	Peter Segal
Simon Markey	...	Dr. Levinson
Neil Maskell	...	Chris Maher
Helen McCrory	...	Rose Davies
Connor McIntyre	...	Derek Batey
Claire Nielson	...	Eleanor Colchester
Joanne Pearce	...	Marion Segal
Miranda Pleasence	...	Maria De Silva
Paul Reynolds	...	Warren Murray
Amanda Royle	...	Ms Thurloe
Billy Scott	...	John Maher
Ninka Scott	...	Court Clerk
Shaughan Seymour	...	Judge
Jack Shepherd	...	Ron Maher
Antony Sher	...	Gerald Lewis QC
Nina Sosanya	...	Marcia Thomas
Mark Strong	...	Len Davies
Steve Sweeney	...	Thomas Haines
Sylvia Syms	...	Elsie Beamish
Ellen Thomas	...	Ruby Thomas
Martin Troakes	...	Hotel Employee
Peter Vaughan	...	Michael Colchester
Sarah Louise Young	...	Jessica Garland
Antony Zaki	...	Ranjit Singh

Runtime:

300 min (6 parts)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Central Criminal Courts, Old Bailey, London, England, UK

Company:

Granada Television

Trivia:

In episode one, a computer screen list showing the names of potential jury members contains the names of fourteen characters from "The Bill" (1984). They are Reg Hollis, Nick Klein, Duncan Lennox, Debbie McAllister, Jack Meadows, Andrew Monroe, Dave Quinnan, Kass (sic) Rickman, Paul Riley, Vic Singh, Kate Spears, Roz Clarke, Tony Stamp and Des Taviner. Some of the potential jurors' addresses also correspond to street names used on the show.

Movie Connections:

References "The Bill" (1984)

Political Correctness (ya-aawwwn)

Despite its fine acting 'The Jury' is just one more program/script driven by the twin Leftist (or Marxisant) orthodoxies of its time: political correctness and so-called "multiculturalism." In this film all the women and non-whites struggle valiantly, and all of them are depicted either as victims of "Eurocentric" white male culture, or as struggling valiantly to overcome their troubles (which, of course, devolve from their having been victimized by white men); and, conversely, all the white men (with the exception of the sensitive one who's working through his priestly vocation or lack thereof) are shown as neurotic, self-absorbed, inept (owing to their inability to see beyond their "whiteness" and maleness and the horrible, oppressive cultures flowing from those two characteristics) muddlers too insensible or witless to see their "issues," let alone to deal decisively or positively with them. Even the recovering alcoholic sod has to pay for the sins of his alcoholism which is, after all - as the Foucaults and gender feminists of the world tell us, a male affliction since men first concocted firewater and they're the ones who swill it and then abuse women while they're under its evil influence. The baleful mother-in-law archetype is absent herein, replaced by the male Jewish juror's veddy British, old school tie, overbearing father-in-law with whose prejudice, inveigling and meddling the muddled juror, of course - according to the PC/Leftist/feminist orthodoxy, cannot deal (his wife, of course, gets it right from the start and never wavers, pillar of feminist strength that she is).

The other men in the film are the father of the murdered schoolboy and his thuggish, vengeful male relatives - the lot of them, of course since they're men, being shown to be prejudiced, vindictive, reptilian, and contemptible. And then there are the lawyers, who are mere mouthpieces for orthodox inflammatory buzzwords, gaffes, and provocations: the sort of innuendo and screed which nowadays monotonously accompany wife-abuse and sexual harassment accusations which, quite often without a case's ever going to court, are often sufficient in themselves to ruin men's reputations and careers.

In sum: spare me, and the world, 'The Jury's' "postmodern" orthodox sort of preachiness. If I want to see and hear - and endure - this kind of Leftist re-education camp lecturing I can tune into BBC World - at least there, because the anchors and reporters haven't a script or the device of acting to hide behind, I can see the sneers on their permanently upturned lips.