Nominated for seven Academy Awards® including Best Picture, In the Name of the Father tells the riveting true story of one man's 15-year struggle and ultimate triumph over a terrible injustice. Academy Award® winner Daniel Day-Lewis gives an impassioned performance as Gerry Conlon, a petty thief in 1970s London, who is forced to confess to a savage terrorist bombing that he did not commit. When he and his father (Pete Postlethwaite) are both sentenced to life imprisonment as one of the 'Guildford Four,' he finds a fiercely dedicated lawyer (Emma Thompson), to help prove his innocence, clear his father's name and expose the truth behind one of the most shameful legal events in recent history.
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