Now, before we get into the important info of how you can watch 'In the Name of the Father' right now, here are some useful insights about the Hell's Kitchen, Universal Pictures drama flick. In the Name of the Father starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch has a R rating, a runtime of about 2 hr 13 min. The release date of the movie is December 12th, 1993. The movie received a user score of 79/100 on TMDb, which comes from reviews from 1,860 contributing users.
Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "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."
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'In the Name of the Father' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on December 12th, 1993
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting
July 8th, 1998
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