In the Name of the Father

Movie

Drama

A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.

Date: 12/12/1993

Rating: 7.9

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Beatie Edney, John Benfield, Paterson Joseph, Marie Jones, Gerard McSorley, Frank Harper, Mark Sheppard, Don Baker, Alison Crosbie, Nye Heron, Anthony Brophy, Frankie McCafferty, Paul Warriner, Julian Walsh, Stuart Wolfenden, Jo Connor, Karen Carlisle, Seamus Moran, Billy Byrne, Maureen McBride, Jane Nolan, Laurence Griffin, Jason Murtagh, Kelly McKeavney, Joanna Irvine, Fiona Daly, Catherine Dunne, Anna Megan, Leah McCullagh, Saffron Burrows, Jamie Harris, Britta Smith, Barbara Mulcahy, Mick Tohill, Peter Sheridan Snr., Joe McPartland, Stanley Townsend, Tim Perrin, Tony Denham, Rob Spendlove, Phil Davis, Martin Murphy, Richard Graham, Oliver Maguire, Maurice Kehoe, Rachael Dowling, Tina Kellegher, Ronan Wilmot, Maclean Burke, Joe Jeffers, Alistair Findlay, Peter Howitt, Sean Lawlor, Brian de Salvo, Luke Hayden, Aiden Grennell, Daniel Massey, Bosco Hogan, Kenneth Edge, Aine O'Connor, Guy Carleton, Dave Duffy, Martin Dunne, Larry Murphy, Richard Michaelis, Mal Whyte, John Gallagher, Marcus Lynch, Jer O'Leary, Joey Cashman, Alan Amsby, Paul O'Grady, Owen Conroy, Dee Man Kole, Bernard Pellegrinetti, Emeka Okeki, Alan O'Connor, Mario McGovern, John Joe Fontana, Terry O'Neill, Joey Legaspi, Jimmie Bergin, John Higgins, Malcolm Tierney, Iain Montague, Paul Raynor, Clodagh Conroy, Peter Sheridan, Darren McHugh, Peter Campbell, Alan Barry, Jonathan Ryan, John Pickles, Liam O'Callaghan, Denys Hawthorne, Tom Wilkinson, Philip King

Daniel Day-Lewis