

In the Name of the Father
In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love.
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $13M
- Box office
- $65.8M
- Language
- English
- prison
- rebellion
- based on novel or book
- parent child relationship
- faith
- 1970s
- biography
- northern ireland
- trial
- thief
- police corruption
- torture
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR25 Feb 1994
United KingdomGB
- Premiere15Belfast13 Dec 1993
- Theatrical (limited)Los Angeles & New York29 Dec 1993
- Theatrical11 Feb 1994
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM13 Jan 1994
CanadaCA
- Theatrical21 Jan 1994
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical17 Mar 1994
BrazilBR
- Theatrical11 Mar 1994
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+31 Mar 1994
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1518 Mar 1994
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical23 Dec 1994
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1611 Mar 1994
FranceFR
- Theatrical129 Mar 1994
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1217 Mar 1994
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In the Name of the Father was released on 27 December 1993.
Audience reviews
4- S10/10
Shreyance Parakh
5/4/2017
**In the name of INNOCENCE !!** Sometimes i say to myself **this can't happen to me** for the simple reason that it sounds really unfair to be happening..But watching a movie like this changes all perception of right and wrong, fair and unfair.. Only thing that can be fair in this world is your **HEART** !! Though **Daniel Day Lewis'** character is not your typical role model from the start, you know that the H…
- F6/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
11/21/2022
**A low-key, much-forgotten but well-executed film.** This movie is totally forgotten these days. Well, actually, if you're not native or very close to Ireland, I think the very existence and action of the IRA seems like something that ended many years ago, and it doesn't. It was a recent thing, and it still has marks on people and society. The film focuses, in particular, on the case of the “Guildford Four” and t…
- A9/10
Andre Wilfred Sanders
5/2/2023
**Oscar for Best Duo Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite**strong text**** The movie tries to convey the horrors of injustice, investigation, and rulings under the pretext of emergency laws and terrorism, but the details of these laws make us laugh by today's standards, even not when the film was shown in 1993. The film exposes us to the shock that the terrorism law at this time could have exposed any innocent …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/6/2026
Tensions in Britain are running high after indiscriminate bombings in IRA defined “army pubs” in Guildford have left five people dead and scores injured. Unluckily, petty thief Gerry Conlan (Daniel Day Lewis) had been in nearby London at the time and so a combination of him splashing some unexplained cash back at home shortly thereafter and a Scotland Yard desperate for a conviction sees him and his friend Paul Hill …
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