In the Name of the Father
by Jim Sheridan
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Actor: Alison Crosbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, Philip KingDirector: Jim Sheridan
Producer: Nye Heron
Producer: Jim Sheridan
Writer: Jim Sheridan
Producer: Arthur Lappin
Producer: Gabriel Byrne
Writer: Gerry Conlon
Writer: Terry George
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: PAL
Running Time: 133 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
VHS Movie Reviews of In the Name of the Father
Movie Review: A stunning film about injustice
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a brilliant film, which shows the appalling events behind a major miscarriage of justice. I found it very moving, and thought the acting and directing was excellent.
This is something I would recommend to anyone.
Movie Review: 20 stars!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this film as soon as it came out on Video. I've watched it through about 20 times & have watched certain scenes over & over. The scene in the prison when Gerry Conlon's father is put into the same cell with his son is riviting. Day-Lewis's emotions build from confused to irate to explosive. Pete Postlethwait's sad, shocked reactions work perfectly with Day-Lewis. Throughout the film, these two work off each other--from lackadasical youth shunning his father's advice to mature, driven young man determined to be free. My Dad is 1/3 Irish & my mother 1/2 Brit. So I've got a war going on inside me which sometimes blasts out like Gerry: "Delayed shock! I've been this way since I was 7!!!" The musical score is brilliant. Also, I'd advise you read the book by Gerry Conlon. He is honest & straightforward. It's not just Britain that imprisons people wrongly, America has Quantanamo Bay. This is a cautionary tale for the justice system which should be shown to students of history in every high school, as well as to every civil servant--from Parliment to Senate to Congress. As Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young sang "Battle Lines Being Drawn, Nobody's Right if Everybody's Wrong." Movie Review: Wrong Place At The Wrong Time
Summary: 5 Stars
A remarkable film based on the true story of Gerry Conlan, In The Name Of The Father has one of the most gripping opening 20 minutes of any movie I have ever seen. The entire film is incredibly well written and superbly acted.
Essentially a tale of the miscarriage of justice and the abuse of police powers during the troubles, the film begins in Belfast with the British troops mistaking Conlon (Danile Day Lewis) for an IRA sniper and chaos ensues. This is just a foretelling of a much more serious mistake in identity that results in his being accused of being one of the Guilford Four bombers after being picked up by the police in London where he and his friend have gone to escape the dangers of Belfast.
Lewis is amazing in the lead role and the rest of the cast is fabulous as well. In the Name Of The Father is a story that serves as a cautionary tale regarding the abuse of power and how being the in wrong place at the wrong time can have devastating consequences.
Movie Review: heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
I have watched this movie more times than I can count. Every time I watch it I am still amazed at what transpired. The acting is truly superb. What happened to the people portrayed in the film (was) is appalling. Scary to think about what may go on behind the scenes when a terrible crime is committed and the police desperately want to solve it.Movie Review: Riveting!
Summary: 4 Stars
"In the Name of the Father" is a movie based on a true story that shows not only how life can be unfair, but how, through strange circumstance, even in great suffering, a father and son come to know and love each other, when otherwise they might have drifted apart.
The story is set during the IRA revolution. A first scene shows happy young people entering a English pub in the evening during the year 1974. Fire and smoke explode in front when a IRA bomb foes off, killing five people. An outraged public demands justice and the pressure on police is tremendous.
Robert Dixon (Corin Redgrave), head of the police force, is desperate to find suspects - and needs them fast. He picks on Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) with little evidence to back his charge. (Daniel Day-Lewis plays this role superbly!) Gerry Conlon and Paul Hill (John Lynch), are old childhood pals that meeting on a boat headed to London. They play instead of work - want-a-be hippies out for a good time and finding home where they can, including a park bench. Somehow they become prime targets and are charged with the crime.
Gerry's father Giuseppe (a name given to him by his mother because she liked Italian Ice) rushes to help his son in London. Pete Postlewait plays the father, Guisseppe. It is a complicated relationship, but mostly antagonistic in the first part of the movie. Guiseppe comes to London from their home in Belfast, Ireland, and is also charged as an IRA revolutionary.
At the trial, the "Guildford Four", including Gerry and Paul, are sentenced to life in prison and Giuseppe is given fourteen years. The mother is there with the daughters of Guiseppe and sisters of Gerry. She is heart-broken and another victim of the sad set of circumstances. Later, evidence is uncovered that show Gerry and Paul are innocent. For some reason of "saving face" the police keep it under wraps. It is not clear how or why Ms. Peirce, the lawyer (Emma Thompson), takes on the case, but she becomes the "houndog of heaven" - never letting go and digging out the facts and truth to get the unfair convictions overthrown.
The last courtroom scene is riveting and tense, yet wonderful in finally hearing that Gerry is free, although his father died in prison. The freeing of Gerry and his three innocent friends is important, but every much as important is the bonding of father and son. During the fourteen years together, they learn how to accept each other and develop a true father and son bond, love and respect.
If the movie seems long in spots, it is due to the threading of several sub-stories and keeping them clear and real throughout.
Summary of In the Name of the Father
Based on a true story, this rousing and tough-minded film details British overzealousness in prosecuting an IRA bombing in the 1970s. Grabbing up a pair of small-time thieves (Daniel Day-Lewis and John Lynch) and their families, the government concocts a conspiracy case against them and tosses them all in jail. Until then, Day-Lewis has been a ne'er-do-well, an apolitical goof looking for a quick score. But confronted with the toughness of his own father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the face of British torture, he begins to realize just what the stakes are. In the Name of the Father is at times grueling and never less than compelling, with a complex performance by Day-Lewis and a strong one by Emma Thompson, as the lawyer who finally cracks through the British obstructions to the truth. --Marshall FineDrama Video
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