IMDb plot summary: A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.
Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, and Corin Redgrave.
Daniel Day-Lewis is unsurprisingly great here. As always, he disappears fully into the role and seems to be radiating young furious anger from the inside out. His relationship with his father, who is imprisoned along with him, is the backbone of this story even more so than their fight for freedom, which really makes this story stand out. What's most impressive is Day-Lewis' ability to take a character who is not a particularly good person and still help us sympathize with him and the egregious injustices facing him. His redemption story is not obvious or even maybe redemption at all. But the movie highlights how you don't have to be a perfect person to deserve fair legal treatment or to suffer under a corrupt system. It's a really compelling character drama.
How it entered my Flickchart:
In the Name of the Father > Molly's Game
In the Name of the Father > Match Point
In the Name of the Father < The Disaster Artist
In the Name of the Father < Clue
In the Name of the Father < The Secret of Santa Vittoria
In the Name of the Father < The Sting
In the Name of the Father < The Goodbye Girl (2004)
In the Name of the Father > Woman in the Dunes
In the Name of the Father > Key Largo
In the Name of the Father < The Quick and the Dead
In the Name of the Father < Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
In the Name of the Father > Elf
Final spot: #780 out of 3199, or 76%.
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