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In the Name of the Father

Play trailer Poster for In the Name of the Father R Released Dec 12, 1993 2h 12m Biography Crime Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Unemployed young Irishman Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) gets by as a petty thief in 1970s Belfast. When local IRA leaders get fed up with him, he flees to England and meets up with his friend Paul Hill (John Lynch). On the same night that the IRA bombs a nearby pub, the friends get kicked out of their communal digs and are forced to sleep in a park. He returns to Belfast, but is arrested as the prime suspect in the bombing and imprisoned, where he spends 15 years trying to clear his name.
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Impassioned and meticulously observed, In the Name of the Father mines rousing drama from a factual miscarriage of justice, aided by scorching performances and director Jim Sheridan's humanist focus.

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David Ansen Newsweek Jim Sheridan tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies used to do. Feb 15, 2018 Full Review Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 28, 2014 Full Review Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times In the Name of the Father is a model of this kind of engaged, enraged filmmaking, a politically charged Fugitive that uses one of the most celebrated cases of recent British history to steamroller an audience with the power of rousing, polemical cinema. Feb 28, 2014 Full Review Graeme Tuckett Stuff.co.nz In The Name Of The Father is a gritty, compelling and engrossing film. Day-Lewis is extraordinary, of course. Jun 3, 2022 Full Review Candice Russell South Florida Sun-Sentinel In the Name of the Father is a deeply stirring film that lessens the moral authority of the I.R.A., English soldiers in Ireland, the British police and the British government. Feb 28, 2014 Full Review People Magazine If Sheridan didn't feel the need to pile on the pedantic subtexts, this would be an absorbing personal drama, rather than a vituperative, question-begging broadside. Feb 28, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Kathryn V To my delight scrolling through movies, I found this movie with Daniel Day Lewis I had never seen. He is just the best, interesting story, too. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/11/24 Full Review Sams K A great great movie. Absolutely brilliant. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/27/24 Full Review Jerod S Daniel Day-Lewis and members of his family are wrongly imprisoned for a pub-bombing. It's got that 90s grit and some solid acting. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/05/24 Full Review Jelisije J An excellent biopic of a true story of a group of people who were wrongly accused of a bombing and how the british government tried to hide the fact that they were innocent. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/24 Full Review Alec B Well acted and appropriately angry but this is such a Hollywoodized version of what actually happened (complete with a crowd pleasing court room finale) that the movie undermines its own narrative. Something slower and quietly sad may have been less popular but it would probably be more of an effective tragedy. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/24 Full Review Alec C In the name of justice, the name of god and in the name of the father! Gerry Conlon is unjustly arrested for his supposed involvement of an IRA bombing and is arrested alongside his father, and they both fight to reclaim their freedom on the inside. Emotionally riveting and destroying, we learn of the true story of how two innocents fought against the system for the sake of being free! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Dropping Acid in Prison In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Dropping Acid in Prison 2:25 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - He Can't Breathe! In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - He Can't Breathe! 2:09 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Not to Be Shown to the Defense In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Not to Be Shown to the Defense 3:19 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Prison Takeover In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Prison Takeover 2:17 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - I'm Gonna Shoot Your Dad In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - I'm Gonna Shoot Your Dad 2:12 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Firelight Vigil In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Firelight Vigil 1:49 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Trashing His Cell In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Trashing His Cell 2:09 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - I Will Fight On! In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - I Will Fight On! 2:09 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - IRA Riot In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - IRA Riot 3:12 In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Improvised Flamethrower In the Name of the Father: Official Clip - Improvised Flamethrower 2:19 View more videos
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Synopsis Unemployed young Irishman Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) gets by as a petty thief in 1970s Belfast. When local IRA leaders get fed up with him, he flees to England and meets up with his friend Paul Hill (John Lynch). On the same night that the IRA bombs a nearby pub, the friends get kicked out of their communal digs and are forced to sleep in a park. He returns to Belfast, but is arrested as the prime suspect in the bombing and imprisoned, where he spends 15 years trying to clear his name.
Director
Jim Sheridan
Producer
Jim Sheridan
Screenwriter
Terry George, Jim Sheridan
Distributor
Universal Pictures, Argentina Video Home
Production Co
Universal Pictures, Hell's Kitchen Films
Rating
R
Genre
Biography, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 12, 1993, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$24.6M
Runtime
2h 12m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo, DTS, Dolby
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