Theater Release:
October 17, 2003
DVD Release:
March 16, 2004
Genre:
Thriller, Drama
MPAA Rating:
Rated R for violence, language and some drug content.
Main Cast:
Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, and Brenda Fricker
Director:
Joel Schumacher
Producer:
Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenwriter:
Mary Agnes Donoghue
Studio:
Touchstone Pictures/ Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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 In the film Veronica Guerin, Dublin in the mid-1990s was nothing short of a war zone where powerful drug lords battled for control. Crime beat journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett) investigated and exposed the pushers. Her struggle to balance her home and family against her responsibility to her readers and her country made her a notional folk heroine to the Irish people. With numerous death threats on her life her legend was only further galvanized.
In 1996, her brutal murder forced a dramatic revision of Ireland’s laws and led to the arrests of the nation’s top criminals. This film, based on a true story, sheds light on the complex Irish conflict of the 1990s and a courageous journalists struggle to find the truth and bring criminals to justice.
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