In the Name of the Father
by Jim Sheridan
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Actor: Alison Crosbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, Philip KingDirector: Jim Sheridan
Brand: Universal
Producer: Nye Heron
Producer: Jim Sheridan
Writer: Jim Sheridan
Producer: Arthur Lappin
Producer: Gabriel Byrne
Writer: Gerry Conlon
Writer: Terry George
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 133 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-07-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of In the Name of the Father
Movie Review: mounting disgust
Summary: 5 Stars
When those who know what is most troubling try to summarize the disturbing aspects of what they face, "In The Name Of The Father" is the kind of movie that dramatizes the kind of reality people wish to escape. Any call for silence in the courtroom is most likely to be sincere when the comments of an attorney who discovered a file that was not to be shown to the defense underscore how rotton the core of courtly assertions has often been.
Like appreciating that Martin Luther was considered a criminal for being a heretic after openly opposing attermpts to shut him up, the idea that Saint Paul police twisted the arm of some radio news host in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in September, 2008, is as easy to understand as Jack Ruby catching Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas Police Station in November, 1963, just a few weeks after what happened to Diem and Nhu in Vietnam and days after what happened to President Kennedy, if you understand how the police are likely to treat anyone they can hold for seven days in a situation that allows the police to control the mounting disgust.
This movie makes it all happen for me. It shows the schismatic max.
Summary of In the Name of the Father
The true story of a dublin youth wrongly imprisoned for an ira bombing and vindicated in a courtroom battle. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: Daniel Day-lewis Emma Thompson Run time: 133 minutes Rating: RBased on a true story, this rousing and tough-minded film details British overzealousness in prosecuting an IRA bombing in the 1970s. Grabbing up a pair of small-time thieves (Daniel Day-Lewis and John Lynch) and their families, the government concocts a conspiracy case against them and tosses them all in jail. Until then, Day-Lewis has been a ne'er-do-well, an apolitical goof looking for a quick score. But confronted with the toughness of his own father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the face of British torture, he begins to realize just what the stakes are. In the Name of the Father is at times grueling and never less than compelling, with a complex performance by Day-Lewis and a strong one by Emma Thompson, as the lawyer who finally cracks through the British obstructions to the truth. --Marshall Fine
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