Based on the bestseller of the same name by George Dawes Green, this thriller has Demi Moore as the juror on a Mafia trial who is harassed, threatened and coerced by Mob henchman Alec Baldwin to bring about a hung jury. Unfortunately, Brian Gibson's film plods along predictably, with the only spark of interest coming from implausible plot twists. Still, thanks to a hilarious performance from Baldwin, it's marginally better than the similarly themed Trial by Jury with Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, which was made two years earlier.

With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.