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In the Name of the Father

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8.18.2Kaverage critics score, out of 1019932h 12mR

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Unemployed young Irishman Gerry Conlon gets by as a petty thief in the 1970s Belfast. When local IRA leaders get fed up with him, he flees to England and meets up with his friend Paul Hill. On the same night that the IRA bombs a nearby pub, the friends get kicked out of their communal digs and are forced to sleep in a park. He returns to Belfast, but is arrested as the prime suspect in the bombing and imprisoned, where he spends 15 years trying to clear his name.

Directed by:

Jim Sheridan