In the Name of the Father (Blu-ray) R
Falsely accused. Wrongly imprisoned. He fought for justice to clear his father’s name.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 7, 2013
- Originally Released: 1993
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Day-Lewis & Emma Thompson | |
Performer: | John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Mark Sheppard, Beatie Edney, Marie Jones, Britta Smith & Pete Postlethwaite | |
Directed by | Jim Sheridan | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenplay by | Jim Sheridan & Terry George | |
Composition by | Trevor Jones | |
Produced by | Jim Sheridan | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Biziou | |
Executive Production by | Gabriel Byrne |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
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.
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Radio Times
Day-Lewis outdoes his acclaimed performance in My Left Foot, making Gerry a character of palpable realness and complexity.
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Christian Science Monitor
...[A] passionately charged political thriller... -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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Los Angeles Times
...Gripping... - Recommended
Premiere
Rating: A- --
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...[Sheridan's] direction is plain and amazingly resonant....Day-Lewis gives another dazzling performance in what is so far the role of his career...
New York Times
Product Description:
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 Best Actor in MY LEFT FOOT, an earlier collaboration with director Sheridan, adds to his impressive body of work with a mind-boggling performance erupting with rage, pride, heart, and courage.
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 Best Actor in MY LEFT FOOT, an earlier collaboration with director Sheridan, adds to his impressive body of work with a mind-boggling performance erupting with rage, pride, heart, and courage.