In the Name of the Father

In The Name of the Father 

Part of the Jim Sheridan Retrospective/1993/Ireland/127 mins

The My Left Foot team of actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan are reunited to make this political drama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five people in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal interrogation forces him to sign a false confession, Gerry is sentenced to prison, his family is raked over the coals, and later his father Giuseppe (Pete Postelthwaite) is charged with being an accomplice and is also sent to prison where he lives out the last days of his life. Day-Lewis gives an outstanding performance as a man tormented by the injustice served him. 

This film has been supplied by the Irish Film Institute and is preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive.