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In the Name of the Father

1993 · Movie · 133 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer94%as of 2026-01-15
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.8/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic84/100as of 2025-08-30

What it is

In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Jim Sheridan, and written by Sheridan and Terry George, based on the 1990 autobiography Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
English

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