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Film · 1993 · Biographical drama
In the Name of the Father
Directed by Jim Sheridan
1993
★ 6.2 editorial score
Daniel Day-Lewis plays a man convicted of a bombing he had nothing to do with: the Guildford Four case, filmed while the wound in Britain was still fresh.
“The film, about the people accused of bombing a pub in Guildford, a suburb in Surrey, takes on not just official British justice but also some of the sociopathic excesses of I.R.A. combatants; not mere injustice, but relative injustice as it glints on the modern cutting edge of a struggle rooted in centuries of Ireland's campaign to be free of English colonialism.”
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