In The Name Of The Father
The true story of 'The Guildford Four,' four men framed for being IRA terrorists. A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well.
1967, County Donegal, Ireland
1937, Peckham, London, England, UK
25 February 1938, Manchester, England, UK
1967, Dublin, Ireland
February 28, 2014
In the Name of the Father is a deeply stirring film that lessens the moral authority of the I.R.A., English soldiers in Ireland, the British police and the British government.
February 28, 2014
This is a stirring and exceptionally well acted, though controversial, dramatisation of Gerry Conlon's book about the grave miscarriage of justice suffered by the Guildford Four.
February 28, 2014
At every point, Day-Lewis is at the center of the story, and he carries the film with an impassioned performance. It helps that it's a great part.
March 25, 2009
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 and Peter Postlethwaite.
February 28, 2014
Day-Lewis, so intricately repressed in The Age of Innocence, here offers a role reversal in an unreserved and emotional performance that throws caution and inhibition to the winds.
February 28, 2014
In the Name of the Father is a model of this kind of engaged, enraged filmmaking, a politically charged Fugitive that uses one of the most celebrated cases of recent British history to steamroller an audience with the power of rousing, polemical cinema.
February 28, 2014
The complicated relationship between the rebellious Gerry and the quietly tormented Giuseppe is one focus of the film. The obvious political implications of the dreadful situation are another.
February 28, 2014
The picture turns into a kind of stylized morality play about the right and the wrong ways for Irishmen to respond to distorted portraits of their character, and it's terrifically effective.
February 28, 2014
If Sheridan didn't feel the need to pile on the pedantic subtexts, this would be an absorbing personal drama, rather than a vituperative, question-begging broadside.
March 11, 2008
Sheridan takes a controversial subject and gives it wider appeal by focusing on the family drama of two men who are also political prisoners.
February 28, 2014
Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable.
February 28, 2014
Day-Lewis outdoes his acclaimed performance in My Left Foot, making Gerry a character of palpable realness and complexity.
