Movie Description
VERONICA GUERIN, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, is the true story of the tenacious Irish crime reporter (Cate Blanchett) who exposed the brutal drug trade in 1990s Dublin. Veronica Guerin's intense dedication to her journalism, reckless hunger for the truth, and profound sense of social responsibility is grippingly portrayed by Blanchett in a magnetic performance.
Told in flashback, the film begins at the moment of her brutal assassination in 1996 and moves backwards, telling the story of the last two years of her life. A competitive journalist with no drug background, Veronica started her fierce campaign against Dublin's drug trade after witnessing young children playing with hypodermic needles in the city's slums. At that moment she started interviewing addicts and small-time thugs and what she discovered eventually led her into a fiercely protected inner circle of drug kingpins, controlled by the viciously powerful John Gilligan (Gerard McSorley). What began as a search for a story became Veronica's obsession. Her quest overshadowed her duties as a wife and mother and eventually threatened the lives of her husband and child. Heroic yet reckless, she persevered, and after threats and violent beatings she was assassinated by the very gangsters she threatened to expose.
| Credits | | Producer: | Jerry Bruckheimer | | Cast: | Brenda Fricker, Cate Blanchett, Ciaran Hinds, Gerard McSorley |
Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scene
Featurettes - 1. Veronica Guerin at the Committee to Protect Journalists
2. "Public Mask, Private Fears" - Making-of
3. "A Conversation with Jerry Bruckheimer"
Commentaries
Text/Photo Galleries:
Producer's Photo Gallery, Theatrical Release: October 17, 2003 (LIMITED)
Editorial Reviews
"A luminous performance lies at the heart of Joel Schumacher's impressive drama VERONICA GUERIN..."
Hollywood Reporter - Mark Adams (07/29/2003)
"...Cate Blanchett gives one of her best performances as Guerin..."
Premiere - Glenn Kenny (11/01/2003)
"...A surprisingly unadorned, straightforward and effective movie....Schumacher renders the Dublin underworld with vivid detail, and he works superbly with his actors..."
Movieline - Stephen Farber (11/01/2003)
"...Her death was shocking; this well-made telling of her life is inspiring..."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (10/24/2003)
"...This is Blanchett's show, and she powers it by giving Guerin a motor that never idles..."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (10/30/2003)
"...Blanchett dominates the material with a headstrong, extroverted performance....Blanchett and Schumacher have found the right note for their story..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (10/17/2003)
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