In the Name of the Father

The great Daniel Day-Lewis is Gerry Conlon, a man coerced into confessing a crime he did not commit, in this 1993 based-on-a-true-story drama nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture.

A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.

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