In the Name of the Father (1993)
96%RT Audience Score: 95%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 7 Oscars
7 wins & 41 nominations total
Impassioned and meticulously observed, In the Name of the Father mines rousing drama from a factual miscarriage of justice, aided by scorching performances and director Jim Sheridan’s humanist focus.
Holy guacamole, In the Name of the Father is one heck of a movie! It’s got drama that’ll make your heart race, and it’s all based on a true story. The performances are so hot, they’ll leave you feeling like you just walked through a desert. And the director, Jim Sheridan, really knows how to make you feel all the feels. He’s a total humanist, whatever that means. But seriously, this movie is a must-see. It’s like a rollercoaster ride of emotions, and you won’t regret hopping on.
Production Company(ies)
Hell’s Kitchen Films, Universal Pictures,
Distributor
Universal Pictures, Argentina Video Home
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for language and politically-geneRated violence
Year of Release
1994
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Stereo DTS
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:2h 12m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Dec 12, 1993 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 2, 2003
Genre(s)
Biography
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $65,796,862
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $133,115,301
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 889
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 14,516,391
US/Canada gross: $25,096,862
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $50,774,098
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,063
US/Canada opening weekend: $109,805
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $222,149
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,628
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $13,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $26,300,630
Production budget ranking: 1,228
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $14,162,889
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $92,651,782
ROI to date (est.): 229%
ROI ranking: 576
Pete Postlethwaite – Giuseppe Conlon
Emma Thompson – Gareth Peirce
John Lynch – Paul Hill
Corin Redgrave – Robert Dixon
Beatie Edney – Carole Richardson
Director(s)
Jim Sheridan
Writer(s)
Terry George, Jim Sheridan
Producer(s)
Jim Sheridan
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 7 Oscars
7 wins & 41 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
All Critics (50) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (3)
Jim Sheridan tells his gripping tale with a fury that stokes up an audience the way early Costa Gavras movies used to do.
February 15, 2018
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
Daniel Day-Lewis is remarkable.
February 28, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4
Gene Siskel
Chicago Tribune
TOP CRITIC
In the Name of the Father is a model of this kind of engaged, enraged filmmaking, a politically charged Fugitive that uses one of the most celebrated cases of recent British history to steamroller an audience with the power of rousing, polemical cinema.
February 28, 2014
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
At every point, Day-Lewis is at the center of the story, and he carries the film with an impassioned performance. It helps that it’s a great part.
February 28, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4
John Hartl
Seattle Times
TOP CRITIC
The picture turns into a kind of stylized morality play about the right and the wrong ways for Irishmen to respond to distorted portraits of their character, and it’s terrifically effective.
February 28, 2014
Terrence Rafferty
New Yorker
TOP CRITIC
Day-Lewis, so intricately repressed in The Age of Innocence, here offers a role reversal in an unreserved and emotional performance that throws caution and inhibition to the winds.
February 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/4
Desmond Ryan
Philadelphia Inquirer
TOP CRITIC
In The Name Of The Father is a gritty, compelling and engrossing film. Day-Lewis is extraordinary, of course.
June 3, 2022
Graeme Tuckett
Stuff.co.nz
In the Name of the Father is a deeply stirring film that lessens the moral authority of the I.R.A., English soldiers in Ireland, the British police and the British government.
February 28, 2014
Candice Russell
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
This is a stirring and exceptionally well acted, though controversial, dramatisation of Gerry Conlon’s book about the grave miscarriage of justice suffered by the Guildford Four.
February 28, 2014 | Rating: 4/5
Sue Heal
Radio Times
Day-Lewis outdoes his acclaimed performance in My Left Foot, making Gerry a character of palpable realness and complexity.
February 28, 2014
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor
In this powerful, Oscar-nominated movie, Jim Sheridan infuses a fact-based social injustice drama with a more intimate family tale of estranged father and son, splendidly played by Daniel Day-Lewis and Peter Postlethwaite.
March 25, 2009 | Rating: A-
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
March 4, 2008 | Rating: 5/5
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com…
Plot
Young Belfastian Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) admits that he was in London at the time of the incident. He also admits that he is not a model citizen, having committed a petty robbery while in London. He does however profess his innocence when it comes to the bombing of the Guildford Pub in London in 1974, the event which killed several people inside. A self-professed non-political person, he and his three co-accused, dubbed the Guildford Four, are thought to be provisional members of the I.R.A. Their self-professed innocence is despite each having signed a statement of guilt which they claim were signed under duress. Their case includes having provable alibis for the time frame of the bombing. And eventually, Joe McAndrew (Don Baker), a known I.R.A. member, admits to the bombing. Dubbed the Maguire Seven, seven others, primarily members of Gerry’s extended family including his father Giuseppe (Pete Postlethwaite), are accused of being accessories to the bombing. Following on the work initiated by Giuseppe, Gerry works on a campaign to prove their collective innocence, this work with the assistance of compassionate lawyer Gareth Peirce (Dame Emma Thompson). As Gareth works on this campaign, she is faced with obstacle after obstacle placed by Robert Dixon (Corin Redgrave), who led the initial investigation and questioning of the four accused on behalf of the Police.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Daniel Day-Lewis delivers yet again with this film, and like I said, he is a dedicated actor who always gives his all in a performance.
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