In the Name of the Father (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 37 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Synopsis: Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, PROVED INNOCENT, Jim Sheridan's IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER tells the tumultuous and wrenching tale of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a London pub. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Conlon, a young Irish petty thief living in London who gets... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Mark Sheppard
Director: Jim Sheridan
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By the end of the movie, whether or not you're a member of Sinn Fein, the Brits' brutality toward the Conlons will get your Irish up.
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03/11/08
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[Sheridan] works with such piercing fervor and intelligence that In the Name of the Father just about transcends its tidy moral design.
03/11/08
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Sheridan takes a controversial subject and gives it wider appeal by focusing on the family drama of two men who are also political prisoners.
03/11/08
Miscarried justice often provides the vehicle for emotionally wrenching drama and histrionic fireworks, and such is the case in spades with In the Name of the Father.
03/11/08
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Letter-perfect performances from Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite do a lot more than a dozen editorials to make an unforgettable point about the miscarriage of justice.
03/11/08
Director Sheridan chronicles the father-son relationship perfectly and also handles the courtroom confrontations skilfully without ever falling into movie melodramatics.
03/11/08
The acting's so good it frequently transcends the simplicities of the script, and whenever Day-Lewis or Postlethwaite is on-screen the movie crackles.
03/11/08
Top Critic
Sheridan's movie seeks to engage and enrage. It's not, however, a film with an ideological axe to sharpen, but one which unfolds, with a sense of passionate conviction, a story of injustice.
06/24/06
Passionate true-story about an Irish youth who was wrongfully convicted of a terrorist act.
12/03/05
Daniel Day-Lewis gives one of his greatest performances, disappearing into the character the way he did in My Left Foot and A Room With a View.
01/15/05
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