In the Name of the Father: Difference between revisions

[[Based on a True Story]], this film starred [[Daniel Day Lewis]], Pete Postlethwaite and [[Emma Thompson]]. Released in 1993, it chronicles the ordeal of the Guildford Four, a group of young Irishmen [[Wrongly Accused]] of bombing two soldiers' pubs in Guildford, England in 1974. At the height of [[The Troubles]], all four were involved with drugs and petty crime, a profile the British police (wrongly) believed fit IRA terrorists. In fact Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis) left England to get away from the IRA who had threatened him for committing theft. After the bombing, police acted on a tip, arresting the four (and later Conlon family members, including Gerry Conlon's father Giuseppe). Coerced into falsely confessing by the police, the Four were convicted by this along with junk science at trial, and received life sentences.

 

[[Category:Academy Award]]

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]