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The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of takin... read more read more...g part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal interrogation forces him to sign a false confession, Gerry is sentenced to prison, his family is raked over the coals, and later his father Giuseppe (Pete Postelthwaite) is charged with being an accomplice and is also sent to prison where he lives out the last days of his life. Day-Lewis gives an outstanding performance as a man tormented by the injustice served him. Watch for Emma Thompson as the persevering lawyer who works for years, gathering evidence to clear Gerry's name. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

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R, 2 hr. 13 min.

Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Release Date: December 29, 1993

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DVD Release Date: July 7, 1998

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  • axadntpron
    December 20, 2011
    axadntpron
    I dont need to say much, i'm a sucker for anything regarding the struggles of Northern Ireland and The Troubles. What makes this film particularly unsettling are the parallels between the Guildford Four and the West Memphis Three. Also, if you love a good over-the-top but still p... read moreowerful performance, Daniel Day delivers the goods here.
  • CloudStrife84
    August 7, 2011
    CloudStrife84
    Superlative drama, about a group of Irishmen wrongfully imprisoned as terrorists in 1970's England. As is ever the case with him, Daniel Day-Lewis exhibits a tour-de-force performance, that leaves one genuinely gripped. Joined by esteemed thespians like Emma Thompson and the late... read more Pete Postlethwaite, there is excellent acting to be found within the supporting cast as well. Sort of like a British version of The Shawshank Redemption, and almost as powerful and brilliant. Certainly not to be missed!
  • deano
    May 24, 2011
    deano
    Impressive biography film made in Ireland. Daniel Day Lewis has an impressive performance in this riveting drama that mirrors a real-life Irish thief Gerry Conlon's 15 years struggle and ultimate triumph over a terrible injustice. And also goes for Pete Postlethwaite as Gerry's f... read moreather. Emma Thompson's portrayal of attorney Gareth Pierce receives much acclaim, and properly so.
    The story is heart-breaking and shocking at the same time, all the more so when one realizes that these things actually DID happen.
    Jim Sheridan's direction is also very good, giving the plot a fair and balanced perspective; although the film might initially appear as pro-Irish / anti-English, in fact I consider it as quite objective.
  • rubystevens
    January 3, 2011
    rubystevens
    giuseppe's dead mon! :'(
  • MissMorganLeee
    July 13, 2010
    MissMorganLeee
    Amazing movie!!! Loved it!! DDL was SPECTACULAR!!!
  • fb619846742
    May 31, 2010
    fb619846742
    An emotional triumph. A searing, gripping fact-based story concerning a man wrongly accused of an IRA bombing, and how the police brutally exploit a new law in their favor, getting this innocent individual to confess to a crime he didn't commit, as well as associating his family ... read morein the whole mess. One of the best stories about corruption and human emotion I've ever seen. It never hurts when you have two of the best actors out there, that being the great Daniel Day-Lewis and the criminally underrated Pete Postlethewaite, playing the lead roles. It's a lengthy movie, but it's worth it, especially with it's tear-jerking, incredibly captured finale which is irrefutably stirring.
  • ironclad1609
    November 15, 2009
    ironclad1609
    Very powerful and true portrayal of innocent Irish men and women going to jail for IRA bombings they didn't commit and their fight for justice. Without most of the usual prison film stereotypes, the movie paints a realistic picture of the British / Northern Irish situation of the... read more 1970s. The acting is excellent, Daniel Day-Lewis breathes life into his ambiguous main character. The film gets you angry at the injustice those people had to go through, but the end is deeply satisfying anyway. Excellent original songs by Bono and Sinead O'Connor, too.
  • 76Majikat
    August 19, 2009
    76Majikat
    The tragic and touching tale of the wrongly imprisioned Guilford Four, plus others, is brought to life by Director Jim Sheridan, with a first class cast, led strongly by Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlewaite.

    This true story is a harrowing watch of corruption and cover ups and... read more delivers a strong, powerful storyline.
  • RossCollinsUK
    April 17, 2009
    RossCollinsUK
    Who polices the police? 16 years later and this powerful story has never been truer as the government tries to extend detention without charge to 42 days against all opposition and amongst reports of terror suspects being tortured before release. A sad but gripping tale of the fa... read moreilures of the modern state that led to the false imprisonment of the Guildford Four.
  • danperry17
    March 14, 2009
    danperry17
    A heart-rending if simple story, it's well-told and incredibly heavy in places and a little hollow in others, but is nevertheless a story that had to be told. Daniel Day-Lewis is pitch perfect as always, and as much as I want to say "formula wrongful imprisonment movie", this is ... read morelong enough ago now that it might have helped lay down that template. One that I had wanted to see since I was a kid, and it did not disappoint.

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Richard Corliss
March 11, 2008
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

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. Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
March 11, 2008
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

[Sheridan] works with such piercing fervor and intelligence that In the Name of the Father just about transcends its tidy moral design. Full Review

Todd McCarthy
March 11, 2008
Todd McCarthy, Variety

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. Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
March 11, 2008
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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. Full Review

Francis X. Clines
May 21, 2003
Francis X. Clines, New York Times

The film offers layers of dramatic detail for those who might be confused at points but teased to inquire further. Full Review

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

The brilliance of Jim Sheridan's motion picture is that we come to view every event from the perspective of how it impacts on the relationship between Gerry and his father, in whose name the final str... Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

[Day-Lewis] proves here once again that he is one of the most talented and interesting actors of his generation. Full Review

Desson Thomson
January 1, 2000
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

As good a compromise of fact and fiction as you could hope for -- and still call it a movie. Full Review

Rita Kempley
January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley, Washington Post

The film takes forever to do what 60 Minutes does with the same meat in a single segment. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
March 25, 2009
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

In this powerful, Oscar-nominated movie, Jim Sheridan infuses a fact-based social injustice drama with a more intimate family tale of estranged father and son, splendidly played by Daniel Day-Lewis an... Full Review

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    • Gerald Conlon: I'm a free man, and I'm going out the front door.
    • Gerald Conlon: I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on. In the name of my father and of the truth!
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