In the Name of the Father (1993)

1993 · 133 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch and Corin Redgrave.

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