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Double bill featuring two movies from director Jim Sheridan and actor Daniel Day-Lewis. In 'The Boxer' (1997), ex-IRA member and former boxing champion Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis) comes out of prison after 14 years and returns to his native Belfast. He falls in with his old coach, Ike (Ken Stott), and the pair open a gym together. Danny meets his old flame, Maggie (Emily Watson), and hopes to rekindle their affair until he discovers that while he was inside she married his best friend, also an IRA member and now serving time himself. As Danny and Ike's gym attracts young talent and Danny successfully resurrects his boxing career, pressure from IRA thug Harry, an opponent of the burgeoning peace process, threatens to destroy everything they are working towards. 'In the Name of the Father' (1993) is the true story of a group of Irish men dubbed the Guildford Four, the victims of a miscarriage of justice that saw them convicted of bombing a soldiers' pub in 1974. Day-Lewis plays Belfast wideboy and petty crook, Gerry Conlon, who, along with his father (Pete Postlethwaite) and two friends, is forced into a false confession claiming responsibility for the terrorist attack.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Andy
These movies were really brilliant, compelling pieces of the filmart. I absolutely love the movie In the name of the father,a drama based on the true story of the 'Guildford four'. A performance of Daniel Day - Lewis (as Gerry Conlon) was extraordinery. Gerry Conlon finds him in the wrong place at the wrong time and is forced to confess to savage IRA bombing. He is sentenced to life imprisonment and by association his father Guiseppe is also arrested and jailed.
It was very moving to see him in a prison with his father and the others just because they were irish. Working with a british lawyer, Gerry fights to prove his innocence, clear his father's name and expose the truth behind one of the most shameful legal events in recent history.
As for The Boxer, well it was rather slow in action, and I had watched only half of it.
But it was worth my money.
It was very moving to see him in a prison with his father and the others just because they were irish. Working with a british lawyer, Gerry fights to prove his innocence, clear his father's name and expose the truth behind one of the most shameful legal events in recent history.
As for The Boxer, well it was rather slow in action, and I had watched only half of it.
But it was worth my money.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By M
The Boxer is set in the "Troubles" of N.I. Day Lewis stars expertly, as usual, but this story, though good and interesting, pales against it's box-mate here, In The Name Of The Father. This is a true story and anyone over the age of about 40 will probably remember the original news stories of the time.
I won't spoil it anymore but at this price for two good movies, I would recommend it.
I won't spoil it anymore but at this price for two good movies, I would recommend it.
I accidentally saw The Boxer in Italian and was amazed in what I found in it, so I decided to buy the original version and got the two movies. In them it is wonderfully depicted the balance between several human tragedies that are intermixed in an overall cold and bloody war. Both movies deserve to be seen because I consider them highly instructive for both youngs and adults. Especially in "The Boxer" you may see that there isn't somebody absolutely right and somebody else absolutely wrong, but the two conditions, like in the reality, are intermixed, and create what's the beauty of the life, an extremely complicated matter you have to learn how to deal with every day to create your future, a future worth to be lived. About "In the Name Of the Father" like in "The Boxer", you see that every action, whatever it is, good or evil, creates a fallout in the human environment that may be extremely painful and cruel either kind and wonderful for somebody that has nothing to do with it. The lesson to learn is: you better think before doing something that may hurt anyone, particularly your loved ones.
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