If Nothing Personal shows violence come into its own, In the Name of the Father depicts a parallel erosion of justice-man's inhumanity to man, made law. On the theory that all's fair in war, the Prevention of Terrorism Act gave British police leave to dispense with restraint. This film, based on the Guildford Four, falsely convicted of a 1974 pub bombing, shows official cupidity masking deadly stupidity. Daniel Day-Lewis portrays Gerry Conlon, the Irish naïf in hippie London who is brutalized into a confession that brings his father into prison with him. Jim Sheridan's film adapts a true story to recognizable Hollywood patterns, but at its heart and in telling details it lives up to its Irishness. And its name: prison cell becomes chamber piece in which Day-Lewis has one of his best turns, as a Catholic son of Ireland who can't help delivering the hurts of boyhood onto his bruised father. All's fair in love. (JB)