In the Name of the Father (1993)
Day-Lewis reunited with My Left Foot director Jim Sheridan for this based-in-fact story of Gerry Conlon, falsely imprisoned along with his father Giuseppe (Pete Postlethwaite) for an IRA bombing. His 15 years behind bars becomes a time for Gerry's unexpected moral and political awakening, and his reconciliation with the father who has always found him a disappointment.

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