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A Jury of Her Peers

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A Jury of Her Peers	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A Jury of Her Peers is a 1980 short film (30 minutes) directed by Sally Heckel.A farmer, Mr. Hale, visits his neighbors the Burkes and finds the man in the house, John Burke, dead in his bed—strangled with a noose. Suspicion naturally falls on Burke's wife Minnie, who, speaking robotically as if she were in a trance, can say only that she must have slept through a stranger coming in to her bedroom and strangling her husband to death.Sheriff Peters, Mr. Cook the county attorney, and Mr. Hale search the place, looking for evidence to tie Mrs. Burke to the crime or to at least figure out why she did it. Meanwhile, Sheriff Peters's and Mr. Hale's wives, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale, go to fetch some things that Minnie has requested be brought to her in jail. Mrs. Hale knew Minnie well, and reflects on how Minnie, once a vivacious young girl who sang in the church choir, was beaten down in spirit by her cold, cruel husband. But the motive for the murder becomes quite clear when the two women find Mrs. Burke's pet canary in a box, dead of a broken neck.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This film was based on Susan Glaspell's 1917 short story "A Jury of Her Peers", which Glaspell had in turn adapted from her own one-act play, Trifles. Mark Margolis played Mr. Hale.
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A Jury of Her Peers / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: The film, like the story, ends before the audience finds out if Mrs. Burke is going to prison. But the implication is that after the other two women hid the evidence of the dead bird, Minnie Burke may beat the rap due to the lack of a motive.
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A Jury of Her Peers / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Both literally and figuratively. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find a literal broken bird, Minnie's pet canary, hidden away in a box. The bird with a broken neck is symbolic of Mrs. Burke, once a joyful young girl, who was left broken in spirit after years of loneliness and emotional abuse from a cruel husband.
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