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In the Name of the Father
In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

1993 133 min ★ 7.9 Drama

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

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Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis

Gerry Conlon

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Giuseppe Conlon

Emma Thompson

Emma Thompson

Gareth Peirce

John Lynch

John Lynch

Paul Hill

Corin Redgrave

Corin Redgrave

Robert Dixon

Beatie Edney

Beatie Edney

Carole Richardson

John Benfield

John Benfield

Chief PO Barker

Paterson Joseph

Paterson Joseph

Benbay

Marie Jones

Marie Jones

Sarah Conlon

Gerard McSorley

Gerard McSorley

Belfast Detective Pavis

Details

Director

Jim Sheridan

Screenplay

Jim Sheridan

Tagline

"In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$65,796,862

Production

Hell's Kitchen

Reviews

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Shreyance Parakh

May 4, 2017

★ 10/10

**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,...

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Filipe Manuel Neto

November 21, 2022

★ 6/10

**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 “G...

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Andre Wilfred Sanders

May 2, 2023

★ 9/10

**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 e...

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CinemaSerf

March 6, 2026

★ 7/10

Tensions in Britain are running high after indiscriminate bombings in IRA defined “army pubs” in Guildford have left five people dead and scores injured. Unluckily, petty thief Gerry Conlan (Daniel Day Lewis) had been in nearby London at the time and so a combination of him splashing some unexplained cash back at home shortly thereafter and a Scotland Yard desperate for a conviction sees him and h...

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