- Title: In the Name of the Father
- Original Title: In the Name of the Father
- Release Date: 12/12/1993
- Tagline: Falsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father’s name.
- Budget: $13,000,000.00
- Duration:133 Min / 02:13
- Country:GBIEUS
- Genre:Drama
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 7.9
Total Votes: 1765
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shiri4frnz
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'**...
FilipeManuelNeto
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....
Ahmetaslan27
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...
