Genre: Drama, Political, Terrorism, Prison, Courtroom, Biography, Law, Thieves, True Story, Society, Religion
Tagline: Falsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father's name.
Plot: Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, PROVED INNOCENT, Jim Sheridan's IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER tells the tumultuous and wrenching tale of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a London pub. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Conlon, a young Irish petty thief living in London who gets picked up after he and a friend, Paul Hill (John Lynch), rob a hooker's apartment. The British police, desperate to produce results in their search for the culprits in the pub bombing, force a false confession out of Conlon after subjecting him to days of sadistic torture and threats. The Guildford Four--Conlon, Hill, Paddy Armstrong (Mark Sheppard), and Carole Richardson (Beatie Edney)--are found guilty of the bombing, and members of Conlon's family, including his sickly father, Guiseppe, are imprisoned as co-conspirators. Conlon's desire to bring the truth to light builds as his harrowing incarceration in a maximum security prison stretches on. The relationship between Conlon and his father, played with silent strength by Pete Postlethwaite, provides a stirring pulse at the core of this portrait of politically motivated injustice. Emma Thompson also turns in a fine performance as the lawyer who stubbornly battles for Conlon's exoneration. And Day-Lewis, who won the Academy Award for
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Jim Sheridan
In America, Get Rich or Die Tryin', My Left Foot |
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Emma Thompson
Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility, Much Ado About Nothing |
 | Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York, The Last of the Mohicans, The Age of Innocence |
 | | | | Anthony Brophy
The Devil's Own, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Snow White: A Tale of Terror | | |
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