In the Name of the Father has an IQ Score of 166/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.
Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Jim Sheridan's 1993 film about the Guildford Four, Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon, wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years for an IRA bombing he didn't commit. The structural commitment to letting British-Irish political-violence cultural specificity and miscarriage-of-justice institutional cognitive material be the actual subject is canonical 1990s political-drama register.
Pete Postlethwaite's father performance is the supporting-actor anchor.
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In the Name of the Father scored 166/200 (Masterclass tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/in-the-name-of-the-father/
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