In the Name of the Father
“In the name of truth... In the name of justice... In the name of love.”
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.
Genres
Drama
Studio
Hell's Kitchen
Language
en
Status
Released
How In the Name of the Father performed
Budget
$13.0M
Worldwide Gross
$65.8M
Gross Profit
$52.8M
Return
5.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$9M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Gerry Conlon
Daniel Day-Lewis
Gerry Conlon
Giuseppe Conlon
Pete Postlethwaite
Giuseppe Conlon
Gareth Peirce
Emma Thompson
Gareth Peirce
Paul Hill
John Lynch
Paul Hill
Robert Dixon
Corin Redgrave
Robert Dixon
Carole Richardson
Beatie Edney
Carole Richardson
Chief PO Barker
John Benfield
Chief PO Barker
Benbay
Paterson Joseph
Benbay
Sarah Conlon
Marie Jones
Sarah Conlon
Belfast Detective Pavis
Gerard McSorley
Belfast Detective Pavis
Ronnie Smalls
Frank Harper
Ronnie Smalls
Paddy Armstrong
Mark Sheppard
Paddy Armstrong
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