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Rating: 7.898/10 by 1745 users

In the Name of the Father (1993)

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.

Directing:
  • Jim Sheridan
  • Gerry Toomey
  • Jean Bourne
  • Simon Moseley
Writing:
  • Jim Sheridan
  • Terry George
  • Gerry Conlon
Stars:
Release Date: Sun, Dec 12, 1993

Rating: 7.898/10 by 1745 users

Alternative Title:
Au Nom du Père - FR
Em Nome do Pai - BR
En el nombre del padre - ES
W Imię Ojca - PL
以父亲的名义 - CN
В името на Отца - BG
Ve jménu otce - CZ
Isa nimel - EE
Isän nimeen - FI
Εις Το Όνομα Του Πατρός - GR
아버지의 이름으로 - KR
I faderns namn - SE
Em Nome do Pai - PT
Im Namen des Vaters - DE

Country:
United Kingdom
Ireland
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 02 hour 13 minutes
Budget: $13,000,000
Revenue: $65,796,862

Plot Keyword: prison, rebellion, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, faith, 1970s, biography, northern ireland, trial, torture, terrorism, ira (irish republican army), ireland, courtroom, prison riot, belfast, north ireland, terrorist bombing, english police, father son conflict, innocent in jail, father son relationship, innocent man, irish history, corrupt police officials, petty thief, irish, corrupt legal system, corrupt district attorney, empathetic, irish resistance, irish writer, british injustice

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
Nye Heron
IRA Man 1
Jo Connor
Bin Lady
Karen Carlisle
Female Rioter
Jane Nolan
Girl with baby
Jason Murtagh
Boy in riot
Fiona Daly
IRA Woman
Catherine Dunne
Woman on Balcony
Anna Megan
Granny Conlon
Leah McCullagh
Bridie Conlon
Saffron Burrows
Girl in Commune
Jamie Harris
Deptford Jim
Britta Smith
Annie Maguire
Mick Tohill
Man in Bookies
Peter Sheridan Snr.
Manager of Bookies
Joe McPartland
Charlie Burke
Stanley Townsend
Hooker's Driver
Tim Perrin
Detective
Phil Davis
Detective
Ronan Wilmot
Paddy Maguire
Maclean Burke
Young Vincent Maguire
Joe Jeffers
Young Patrick Maguire
Alistair Findlay
Forensic Scientist
Peter Howitt
Remand Prison Officer
Sean Lawlor
Remand Prison Officer
Brian de Salvo
Remand Prison Officer
Luke Hayden
Remand Prison Officer
Bosco Hogan
Defense Counsel
Kenneth Edge
Jury Foreman
Aine O'Connor
Dixon's Wife
Guy Carleton
Prison Admissions Officer
Dave Duffy
Prison Officer
Martin Dunne
Prison Officer
Larry Murphy
Old Prison Officer
Richard Michaelis
Cockney Prisoner
Mal Whyte
Cockney Prisoner
John Gallagher
Cockney Prisoner
Marcus Lynch
Cockney Prisoner
Jer O'Leary
Prisoner John O'Brien
Malcolm Tierney
Home Office Official
Iain Montague
Leader of Delegation
Paul Raynor
New Chief Prison Officer
Clodagh Conroy
Dixon's Secretary
Darren McHugh
Dixon's Son
Peter Campbell
Government Official
Alan Barry
Archivist Jenkins
Jonathan Ryan
Scottish Governor
John Pickles
Procedural Court Judge
Denys Hawthorne
Appeal Judge
Tom Wilkinson
Appeal Prosecutor
Philip King
Guildford Soldier

Shreyance Parakh

**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 **HEART** !! Though **Daniel Day Lewis'** character is not your typical role model from the start, you know that the Heart within isn't black (more so from a scene just before he says 'In all my godforsaken life, I've never known what it was to kill somebody until now')..The transformation of Day Lewis' character from a man who wasn't responsible enough to take care of himself to a man who vows to fight for his father's name is brilliantly heartwarming! It just pains me to see how cruel 'WE' as a species can be to not accept our mistakes, even when we know that it can make someone's life miserable than HELL!! In all the movie is good till the time you don't think of it as someone's life being played out in front of you.As soon as you realize that,it transforms into something you cant just think of as just another brilliant movie.Instead your heart goes out to the people who actually had to go through all this.. Well directed, superbly acted, brilliant,heart breaking and heart warming at the same time !! Those who found it beautiful can go for Hillary Swank's 2010 movie **Conviction** as their next choice of another heartwarming 'eye treat' !

Filipe Manuel Neto

**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, and it still has marks on people and society. The film focuses, in particular, on the case of the “Guildford Four” and the “Maguire Seven”, which was a group of people who were accused of a bomb attack and of collaborating with the IRA, later proving to be if they were all innocent. The acquittal, however, came too late for the family patriarch, who died in prison. The accused were, almost all, related to each other, family or friendship. I don't know the facts very well, although I did read something about the attack and the real case the film was based on, in order to better prepare myself to understand the film and be able to talk about it. As far as I can tell, the film obviously took a lot of liberties to make the story more appealing and dramatic, but nothing that is shockingly out of line with what happened. Daniel Day Lewis was still relatively young here, but he was already showing signs of great talent. He is a focused actor and very responsible with his work, who dedicates himself to what he does and commits himself to the character. And we can see how he adapts to the character, and makes it real and believable and human. I also really enjoyed Pete Postlethwaite's work. I think it's particularly notable the way he allowed himself to age in order to play an older, physically impaired character. Technically, the film is very worthy in its effort to portray the ordeal to which the convicts were subjected, and it does so in a very convincing and credible way. The choice of sets, filming locations and costumes contribute a lot to this. The film works very well on the environment and psyche of the characters, resulting in a dense drama, which may not please those who want a lighter film, but which works very well. The opening credits were well-introduced, even though I don't like the theme song.

Ahmetaslan27

**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 was shown in 1993. The film exposes us to the shock that the terrorism law at this time could have exposed any innocent person for 7 days without charge, and I believe that it is still present in many countless countries on the globe. The film talks about the true story of the Quartet of Guildford and the Seven of Maguire, a very painful human rights story whose chapters begin with the arrest of the Irish young man Gerry Conlon in England and accusing him, along with three others, of carrying out a terrorist attack to bomb a bar in Guildford. Although Jerry is reckless and has criminal tendencies already, but through the events of the film we realize that Jerry and those with him are innocent, but the investigation and interrogation process shows that it has many impurities and corruption in how to accuse these innocent people. In the Name of the Father, on the surface, talks about justice and the feeling of oppression in the face of injustice. The events of the film are dramatic, revolving around other topics, the most important of which is the relationship between the son and the father and how it develops, as well as how an ugly place such as prison can constitute an opportunity for Jerry to mature in a way that would not have happened if he had not been subjected to injustice. The multiplicity and diversity of the dimensions of the film, in addition to manifestations outside the capabilities of the planet in two scenes and the performance of two actors, who gave the film great importance and a special place for me. If there was an Oscar for best acting duo, the Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite partnership would have given them blindfolded. The character of Giuseppe Conlon has no faults. Even the story of his name, which allowed a wonderful scene to be told, was charming and incredible. He had a strange state of coherence in light of the circumstances in which he was, and in light of his background full of downwardness, which made him follow the rules and laws strictly so as not to violate the law. This flatness made his son Jerry view him as a weakness. But when Jerry realized when he tested himself in facing the same challenges his father faced, he saw his father, Giuseppe Conlon, gain ground and respect in every situation. This movie is incredibly wonderful. It dazzled me and made me follow the events without getting bored.


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