In the Name of the Father (film)
In the Name of the Father is a 1993 IrishBritishAmerican biographical courtroom drama film cowritten and directed by Jim Sheridan. It is based on the true life story of the Guildford Four, four people falsely convicted of the 1974 IRAs Guildford pub bombings, which killed four offduty British soldiers and a civilian. The screenplay was adapted by Terry George and Jim Sheridan from the autobiography Proved Innocent The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four by Gerry Conlon.
Gerry Conlon Daniel DayLewis is shown in Belfast stripping lead from roofs of houses when security forces home in on the district with armoured cars, and a riot breaks out. Gerrys father, Giuseppe Conlon Pete Postlethwaite, later saves him from IRA punishment, and he is sent off to London to stay with his aunt, for his own good. Instead, he finds a squat, to explore, as he puts it, free love and dope. One evening by chance he gains entry to a prostitutes flat and he steals the 700 he finds stashed inside on that evening in Guildford there is an explosion at a pub that kills four offduty soldiers and a civilian, and wounds sixtyfive others.While Gerry has returned to Belfast to show off his stolen money, one of the squat residents talks to the authorities and the Conlon home is raided by the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary, who arrest Gerry and immediately place him on a military flight to the mainland UK. Gerry and his friend, Paul Hill John Lynch are interrogated by police who torture and threaten them until both finally agree to sign a confession after being held for up to seven days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. When Gerrys father, Giuseppe travels from Belfast to England to help his son, he is arrested at the aunts home. In the subsequent trial, his aunts family known as the Maguire Seven, including his father are convicted of supporting the bombing on the basis of unsubstantiated nitroglycerin traces, and the four, including Gerry, are sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. ........
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