“In the Name of the Father” quotes
(1993)
Title In the Name of the Father
Year 1993
Director Jim Sheridan
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 1993
Director Jim Sheridan
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Plot – Gerry Conlon, his father Joseph, his friend Paul Hill and their families are arrested after an IRA attack. Under torture, Gerry and Paul confess. Despite the obvious evidence of their alienation to the events, they are condemned. Only after fifteen years, a campaign leads to Gerry's retrial.
All actors – Alison Crosbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Philip King, Emma Thompson, Nye Heron, Anthony Brophy, Frankie McCafferty, Paul Warriner, Julian Walsh, Stuart Wolfenden, Jo Connor, Karen Carlisle, Seamus Moran, Billy Byrne, Maureen McBride, Jane Nolan, Laurence Griffin, Jason Murtagh, Kelly McKeavney, Joanna Irvine, Fiona Daly, Catherine Dunne, Pete Postlethwaite, Anna Meegan, Marie Jones, Leah McCullagh, John Lynch, Beatie Edney, Saffron Burrows, Mark Sheppard, Jamie Harris, Britta Smith, Don Baker, Barbara Mulcahy, Mick Tohill, Peter Sheridan Sr., Joe McPartland, Stanley Townsend, Corin Redgrave, Gerard McSorley, Tim Perrin, Tony Denham, Rob Spendlove, Phil Davis, Martin Murphy, Richard Graham, Oliver Maguire, Maurice Kehoe, Rachael Dowling, Tina Kellegher, Ronan Wilmot, Maclean Burke, Joe Jeffers, Alistair Findlay, Peter Howitt, Sean Lawlor, Brian de Salvo, Luke Hayden, Aiden Grennell, Daniel Massey, Bosco Hogan, Kenneth Edge, Aine O'Connor, Guy Carleton, John Benfield, Dave Duffy, Martin Dunne, Larry Murphy, Richard Michaelis, Mal Whyte, John Gallagher, Marcus Lynch, Frank Harper, Jer O'Leary, Joe Cashman, Alan Amsby, Paul O'Grady, Owen Conroy, Dee Man Kole, Bernard Pellegrinetti, Emeka Okeki, Alan O'Connor, Mario McGovern, John Joe Fontana, Terry O'Neill, Joey Legaspi, Jimmie Bergin, John Higgins, Paterson Joseph, Malcolm Tierney, Iain Montague, Paul Raynor, Clodagh Conroy, Peter Sheridan, Darren McHugh, Peter Campbell, Alan Barry, Jonathan Ryan, John Pickles, Liam O'Callaghan, Denys Hawthorne, Tom Wilkinson, , Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Shimmy Marcus, Deirdre Mulrooney, Reamonn O'Byrne, Trevor Stynes
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“- Giuseppe Conlon: I'm going to die.
- Gerry Conlon: Don't be saying that.
- Giuseppe Conlon: I'm scared.
- Gerry Conlon: There's no reason to be scared. You have nothing to be scared about.
- Giuseppe Conlon: Don't you be comforting me when I can see the truth staring me in the face. I'm scared I'm gonna die here.”“I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are...” (continue)(continue reading)
“What I remember most about my childhood is holding your hand. My wee hand in your big hand, and the smell of tobacco. I remember, I could smell the tobacco in the palm of your hand. When I want to feel happy, I try to remember the smell of tobacco.”
“I'm a free man, and I'm going out the front door.”
“- Gareth Peirce: It's not the stairs that are killing your father.
- Gerry Conlon: Aye, what is it then?
- Gareth Peirce: It's your lack of faith.”
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