In the Name of the Father

In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love.

Plot Summary

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.

7.9 /10

1993

IEGB

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