![]() But there's more to his story (co-written by Sheridan and Terry George) than good, scruffy Irish victims and rabidly bad English heavies-though there's plenty of that. ![]() Twenty years later the "Irish problem," as ugly and unresolved as ever, the case-and now this film-are still arousing angry passions in England.ĭirector Jim Sheridan (who made the memorable "My Left Foot" with Day-Lewis) tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies ("Z") used to do. ![]() The political pressure to find a culprit for the bombings turned the criminal justice system criminal itself: evidence was willfully suppressed, torture used to extract confessions, and when the actual terrorists admitted their guilt, their testimony was ignored. It was one of the English judiciary's most shameful hours. Not only did Conlon and his Irish mates spend 15 years in jail before their sentences were over-turned, but seven other innocents-including his father and his aunt-served time on trumped-up charges. As tales of injustice go, this one's a doozy. GUARANTEED TO GET YOUR BLOOD boiling, In the Name of the Father relates the true story of Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), one of the "Guildford Four" wrongly convicted of planting IRA bombs in two English pubs in 1974.
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