| ORIGINAL TITLE |
In the Name of the Father |
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| DIRECTOR |
Jim Sheridan |
| SCREENWRITER |
Terry George & Jim Sheridan (Novel: Gerry Conlon) |
| COMPOSER |
Trevor Jones (Songs: Bono, Gavin Friday) |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Peter Biziou |
| CAST |
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, John Lynch, Beatie Edney, Mark Sheppard, Don Baker, Frank Harper, Saffron Burrows, Tom Wilkinson, Gerard McSorley |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
Co-production UK-Ireland; Universal Pictures / Hell's Kitchen Films |
| AWARDS |
1993: Academy Awards: 7 Nominations, including Best Movie, Director and Actor (Lewis)
1993: Golden Globes: 4 Nominations: Movie Drama, OST, Actor Drama, Supporting Actress
1993: 2 Nominations for BAFTA: Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Adapted Screenplay
1993: David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Film. 2 nominations
1994: Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear |
| GENRE |
Drama | Terrorism. IRA. Based on a true story. Prison drama. Courtroom Drama. The 70s |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
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. |
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