i saw this at the 1998 montreal film festival and find it a move and challenge film on the complexity of personal and political response to a longstanding and divisive issue . well acted and cinematographed and this film add a dimension that have be rarely touch upon in other depiction of the trouble in northern ireland . it compliment every mother son and in the name of the father with a move story of the long lasting and indiscriminate effect of violence and an attempt to question it limit a a political strategy . this be not a simplistic film and and it power come from the depth of it critique of all the player in this ongoing political struggle .