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In the Name of the Father
“In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love.”
19932h 13mDir Jim Sheridan7.9TMDB
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.
Top Cast
102 total
Daniel Day-Lewis
as Gerry Conlon
Pete Postlethwaite
as Giuseppe Conlon
Emma Thompson
as Gareth Peirce
John Lynch
as Paul Hill
Corin Redgrave
as Robert Dixon
Beatie Edney
as Carole Richardson
John Benfield
as Chief PO Barker
Paterson Joseph
as Benbay
The scene we cut
Case dismissed
Fifteen years in prison and the judge says the words in under a minute.
Day-Lewis spent nights in a cell and was interrogated by real officers for the arrest scenes. He lost two stone.
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