Opening with a black and white version of the Warner Brothers logo, moving onto a drawing of blind justice, Juror #2 feels old-fashioned from the off. That's only heightened when Justin Kemp leads his expectant wife, blindfolded, into what'll be their child's nursery. Nicholas Hoult is he, Zoey Deutch is she, and between that and the title you're most of the way to what's going on.

It's improbable, of course. Chatham County in Georgia is the easternmost of that state, contains the major municipality of Savannah. The odds of your man being in the pool called from the 300,000 and change who call it home are minimal, but then so are the odds that Clint Eastwood would already have directed a courtroom drama set here.

That's Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil if you're wondering. There are other Eastwood connections too, a hostelry important to the plot is called Rowdy's,...