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In the Name of the Father

R
Movie
1993
2h 13m
English
Drama
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
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8.2
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CRITIC SCORE
89

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Daniel DayLewis
Gerry Conlon
Pete Postlethwaite
Giuseppe Conlon
Emma Thompson
Gareth Peirce
John Lynch
Paul Hill
Corin Redgrave
Robert Dixon
Beatie Edney
Carole Richardson
John Benfield
Chief PO Barker
Marie Jones
Sarah Conlon
Gerard McSorley
Belfast Detective Pavis
Frank Harper
Ronnie Smalls
Mark Sheppard
Paddy Armstrong
Don Baker
Joe McAndrew
Alison Crosbie
Girl in Pub
Nye Heron
IRA Man 1
Jo Connor
Bin Lady
Karen Carlisle
Female Rioter
Seamus Moran
IRA Man 2
Billy Byrne
IRA Man 3
Directed By: Jim Sheridan
Written By: Jim Sheridan (Screenplay), Terry George (Screenplay)

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noak says...
12 years ago
Great film. Incredibly underrated.
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siggi963 says...
a month ago
A good story about the independence struggle in Norther-Ireland through the eyes of a father and his son. Excellent performance by Daniel Day-Lewis.
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JoeyvanAwesome says...
8 months ago
Wasn’t expecting a movie like this. What a tragic real life story about a failing justice system. Awesome movie with some great acting!
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Basinator says...
4 years ago
In the Name of Father (1993) A (mostly) true story about the abuse of anti-terrorism laws in the UK following IRA bombings and the injustice of the system and convictions based upon confessions under torture and abuse. I personally didn't like the acting too much, it was for me more about the backgrounds and the story itself which has happened. And how unbelievable it was for such a thing to exist. Rating: 5/10
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Featured User Reviews

Jordyep
4/10  8 months ago
It has one of those great opening scenes that pulls you in right away. Great staging, amazing music choice, solid writing; just very impressively done overall. What follows is a below average drama in need of better direction. It’s already not the most dramatically compelling story due to the mora More
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Ahmetaslan27
one year ago
**Oscar for Best Duo Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite**strong text****

The movie tries to convey the horrors of injustice, investigation, and rulings under the pretext of emergency laws and terrorism, but the details of these laws make us laugh by today's standards, even not when the film More
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Filipe Manuel Dias Neto
2 years ago
**A low-key, much-forgotten but well-executed film.**

This movie is totally forgotten these days. Well, actually, if you're not native or very close to Ireland, I think the very existence and action of the IRA seems like something that ended many years ago, and it doesn't. It was a recent thing, More
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Shreyance Parakh
6 years ago
**In the name of INNOCENCE !!**

Sometimes i say to myself **this can't happen to me** for the simple reason that it sounds really unfair to be happening..But watching a movie like this changes all perception of right and wrong, fair and unfair.. Only thing that can be fair in this world is your * More
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