Fresh
Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
In the Name of the Father
In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love.
1993 · 2h 13m · R
Drama
Directed by
Jim Sheridan
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In the Name of the Father
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.
Director and cast
- Jim Sheridan Director
- 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
- Marie Jones as Sarah Conlon
- Gerard McSorley as Belfast Detective Pavis
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
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.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
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.
Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
Fresh
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.
Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer
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