Word: conlon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reached dreamboat status as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). And in his last two films, another rep-company parlay. He is Newland Archer, the sensitive 1870s New York City lawyer, in Martin Scorsese's rapturously sedate The Age of Innocence. He is Irish hell-raiser Gerry Conlon, framed and imprisoned with his saintly dad (Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite) for an I.R.A. bombing, in Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father. They are an amazing pair, Newland and Gerry, two men in their own prisons -- one surrendering his passion to Old New York civility, the other...
...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...
...Sheridan never set out to make a documentary, he has been attacked for needlessly distorting the facts of the case. The film, for instance, shows the Maguire Seven on trial with the Guildford Four, though the cases were tried separately. In some of its most affecting scenes, it shows Conlon, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, sharing a jail cell with his father, though the two were often not even in the same prison. A grand and heroic part is carved for actress Emma Thompson, playing Conlon's solicitor, Gareth Peirce, but in reality Peirce was a minor figure and another...
...seeking an "emotional honesty" and that the real subject of his film was a son's changing relationship with his father. % But if that was his intended subject, say some close to the case, the director should have used someone else's story. "The truth is that Gerry Conlon had very little time for his father," says Sean Smyth, an uncle. "It's a good film, well acted and everything," concedes Conlon's aunt, Anne Maguire. "But I think if they'd put more of the true facts in, it would have been a much more powerful film...
Gerry's bleak existence in prison begins with his meek, aging father (Pete Postlethwaite). The two, who were never very close before, suddenly grow dependent upon one another, venting their anger, frustrations, and love. They are clearly of two generations: While Guiseppe Conlon prays with his rosary, Gerry trips on acid. When without proper medical care, Guiseppe's heart condition becomes critical, Gerry must grow up. He does things he would never have done before: He rubs menthol on his father's chest, saves the life of a warden, and begins to cooperate with the young lawyer, Gareth Peirce (Emma...