The story distills the absurdities and structural injustices that can take root in criminal prosecutions.

The 1993 British film “In the Name of the Father” recounts a harrowing case of wrongful conviction marked by coercive police interrogation, the suppression of critical evidence and an agonizingly protracted struggle for a retrial.

By dramatizing one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in modern British history, the film evokes a 1970s Britain unsettled by fear, prejudice and the political turbulence of the Northern Ireland conflict.

Gerry Conlon, a young man from Northern Ireland, is arrested with his friends on suspicion of carrying out a deadly pub bombing on the outskirts of London. Despite insisting on his innocence at trial, he is convicted as one of the perpetrators and sentenced to life in prison, sinking into despair.

His father,........

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