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In the Name of the Father

Name: In the Name of the Father
Director: Jim Sheridan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-12-27
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

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.

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Cast

Daniel Day-LewisPete PostlethwaiteEmma ThompsonJohn LynchCorin RedgraveBeatie EdneyJohn BenfieldPaterson JosephMarie JonesGerard McSorleyFrank HarperMark Sheppard

Director

Jim Sheridan

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