Storyline
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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Cast
Maclean Burke, Tom Wilkinson, Saffron Burrows, Jamie Harris, Emma Thompson, Stanley Townsend, Pete Postlethwaite, Oliver Maguire, John Lynch, Sean Lawlor, Malcolm Tierney, Martin Murphy, Gerard McSorley, Mal Whyte, Jer O'Leary, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Graham, Terry O'Neill, Paterson Joseph, Beatie Edney, Alistair Findlay, Tony Denham, Peter Howitt, Stuart Wolfenden, Bosco Hogan, Frank Harper, John Benfield, Phil Davis, Fiona Daly, Alison Crosbie, Corin Redgrave, Tim Perrin, Marie Jones, Frankie McCafferty, Britta Smith, Jonathan Ryan, Mark Sheppard, Don Baker, Philip King, Nye Heron, Anthony Brophy, Paul Warriner, Julian Walsh, Jo Connor, Karen Carlisle, Rob Spendlove, Rachael Dowling, Tina Kellegher, Ronan Wilmot, Brian de Salvo, Luke Hayden, Aiden Grennell, Daniel Massey, Dave Duffy, Marcus Lynch, Paul O'Grady, Peter Sheridan, Alan Barry, Denys Hawthorne
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Reviews
100
For in relating the true story of Conlon's wrongful conviction and 15-year imprisonment, Sheridan has used the tools of the filmmaker to evoke a visceral echo of Conlon's waking nightmare.
100
ReelViews
Jim Sheridan skillfully interweaves a myriad of subplots and themes into a fast-paced, cohesive whole.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Sheridan, however, works with such piercing fervor and intelligence that In the Name of the Father just about transcends its tidy moral design.
90
The New York Times
And, riskiest of all, the film makers eschewed another grainy documentary go at the subject in favor of a movie drama of one of the most compelling true stories of the modern troubles.
90
In the Name of the Father is as good a compromise of fact and fiction as you could hope for -- and still call it a movie.
