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In the Name of the Father

1993

Jim Sheridan

Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, John Lynch ...

8.2

80,316

Drama Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie does a harrowing job of showing how, and why, a man might be made to confess to a bombing he didn't commit (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A personal tragedy and a plea for reason, Mr. Sheridan's tough, riveting film succeeds on both scores."	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Letter-perfect performances from Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite do a lot more than a dozen editorials to make an unforgettable point about the miscarriage of justice (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Day-Lewis is wonderfully understated and touchingly believable as Conlon."	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Mars-Jones The Independent	"Solid and well-crafted, with moments of great power"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"[Sheridan] works with such piercing fervor and intelligence that 'In the Name of the Father' just about transcends its tidy moral design"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The acting's so good it frequently transcends the simplicities of the script, and whenever Day-Lewis or Postlethwaite is on-screen the movie crackles"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Sheridan's movie seeks to engage and enrage. It's not, however, a film with an ideological axe to sharpen, but one which unfolds, with a sense of passionate conviction"	POS
United Kingdom	Sue Heal Radio Times	"This is a stirring and exceptionally well acted, though controversial, dramatisation of Gerry Conlon's book (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"[Daniel Day-Lewis's] performance makes us feel we are sharing his harrowing experience."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Pic reaches its actorly heights in the intense, intimate scenes between Day-Lewis and Postlethwaite"	POS

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