Juror #2 is a movie about difficult choices and how our moral compass tends to shift when our circumstances change.  What we believe in the abstract suddenly becomes untenable when the things we value are at risk.  The difficulties involved with making the right choice despite the consequences has been a reliable subject for drama films, including several of director Clint Eastwood’s best (Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and American Sniper).  It also happens to be the theme of Juror #2, which is what I imagine attracted Eastwood to the material.  The movie places the protagonist in an increasingly stressful situation and asks him to be an upstanding, law-abiding citizen.  However, doing so puts him directly at odds with being a good husband and father, which makes “the right choice” not so clear-cut.