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In the Name of the Father
Directed by
Jim Sheridan
R
1993
2h 13m
Drama
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Biography
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8.1
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An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
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Cast of In the Name of the Father
Daniel Day-Lewis
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
Paterson Joseph
Benbay
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 / Associate Producer
Anthony Brophy
Danny
Frankie McCafferty
Tommo
Paul Warriner
Soldier
Julian Walsh
Soldier
Stuart Wolfenden
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In the Name of the Father Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
Jim Sheridan tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies used to do.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
At every point, Day-Lewis is at the center of the story, and he carries the film with an impassioned performance. It helps that it's a great part.
The New Yorker
Terrence Rafferty
The picture turns into a kind of stylized morality play about the right and the wrong ways for Irishmen to respond to distorted portraits of their character, and it's terrifically effective.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Day-Lewis, so intricately repressed in The Age of Innocence, here offers a role reversal in an unreserved and emotional performance that throws caution and inhibition to the winds.
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.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The complicated relationship between the rebellious Gerry and the quietly tormented Giuseppe is one focus of the film. The obvious political implications of the dreadful situation are another.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Day-Lewis outdoes his acclaimed performance in My Left Foot, making Gerry a character of palpable realness and complexity.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
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.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
[Sheridan] works with such piercing fervor and intelligence that In the Name of the Father just about transcends its tidy moral design.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
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.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
New York Times
Francis X. Clines
The film offers layers of dramatic detail for those who might be confused at points but teased to inquire further.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[Day-Lewis] proves here once again that he is one of the most talented and interesting actors of his generation.
Austin Chronicle
Robert Faires
It is an injection into a society at war, Northern Ireland and England in the Seventies and a compelling account of a son and father making their peace.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The film takes forever to do what 60 Minutes does with the same meat in a single segment.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
As good a compromise of fact and fiction as you could hope for -- and still call it a movie.
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