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In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

7.9/ 10

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1993

Release Year

133 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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.

Keywords

prison
rebellion
based on novel or book
parent child relationship
faith
1970s
biography
northern ireland
trial
thief
police corruption
torture
terrorism
ira (irish republican army)
ireland
courtroom
prison riot
belfast, north ireland
terrorist bombing
english police
father son conflict
innocent in jail
father son relationship
innocent man
irish history
irish
corrupt legal system
corrupt district attorney
irish resistance
irish writer
british injustice
british crimes

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Reviews(4)

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Shreyance Parakh

@shiri4frnz

May 4, 2017

10
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 *

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

November 21, 2022

6
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,

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Andre Wilfred Sanders

@Ahmetaslan27

May 2, 2023

9
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

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 6, 2026

7
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 unexplaine

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