In the Name of the Father (1993)
Country: EI/GB
Technical: Technicolor 133m
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson
Synopsis:
Four innocent Irish dropouts in London are picked up by the police and through a combination of coercion and trumped up evidence are convicted of carrying out the Guildford pub bombings. This is the story of one of them, and his conflicted relationship with his father.
Review:
A film which has not aged well but which still delivers dividends on the acting front. The climactic grandstanding courtroom scene is a rather glib betrayal of what has gone before, calling into question the factual basis for the screenplay.
Country: EI/GB
Technical: Technicolor 133m
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson
Synopsis:
Four innocent Irish dropouts in London are picked up by the police and through a combination of coercion and trumped up evidence are convicted of carrying out the Guildford pub bombings. This is the story of one of them, and his conflicted relationship with his father.
Review:
A film which has not aged well but which still delivers dividends on the acting front. The climactic grandstanding courtroom scene is a rather glib betrayal of what has gone before, calling into question the factual basis for the screenplay.
Country: EI/GB
Technical: Technicolor 133m
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson
Synopsis:
Four innocent Irish dropouts in London are picked up by the police and through a combination of coercion and trumped up evidence are convicted of carrying out the Guildford pub bombings. This is the story of one of them, and his conflicted relationship with his father.
Review:
A film which has not aged well but which still delivers dividends on the acting front. The climactic grandstanding courtroom scene is a rather glib betrayal of what has gone before, calling into question the factual basis for the screenplay.