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...fast and loose with certain facts in JFK. Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has largely escaped such criticism in the U.S., but only because Americans are unfamiliar with the story it is based on. In Britain, where people have lived with the case of the Guildford Four for 20 years, the film's reception has been considerably stormier...
...movie tells the tale of Gerry Conlon, who along with three other youths was falsely accused of killing five people in a 1974 I.R.A. bombing of two pubs in Guildford, England. The four -- three men and a woman -- served 14 years in prison before their convictions were overturned. Seven friends and relatives of Conlon's (the Maguire Seven), including his father, also served many years on trumped-up charges of having made the bombs...
Accompanied by a bevy of Kennedys, Paul Hill appeared in a court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to appeal his 1975 life sentence for the murder of a former British soldier. (Hill has been freed pending the legal outcome.) One of the so-called Guildford Four, Hill served 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of an I.R.A. pub bombing -- a story told in the film In the Name of the Father. He is married to Courtney Kennedy, Robert's daughter...
Which brings me to the matter at hand: the soundtrack to "In the Name of the Father," a pretty good movie about the Guildford Four ("Falsely Accused. Wrongly Imprisoned"-surely you know the story by now). Why would you want to buy this slickly packaged item? Good question. Despite a few strong new compositions and a handful of rock standards, there's no overarching logic to this collection, and there is too much filler...
...Gerry and Guiseppe are captivating: In their helplessness, Gerry is prone to bouts of charged insanity while the sick Guiseppe sinks into silent meekness. However, their humanity shines in comparison to their unpredictable prison-mate, Joe (Don Baker), the silent, controlling IRA terrorist who is actually responsible for the Guildford bombing...