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Mood:
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- GangstersTragic HeroDrug DealingInvestigationJournalismUncover TruthIdealismPrice of Justice more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDramaThrillerMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- Ireland
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- Award Winner
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- Strong Female Role
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- Based on True Story
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Violent Content
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Veronica Guerin, 2003
English
USA, Ireland, UK
Profile of Veronica Guerin
Veronica Guerin can be described as emotional, sincere, and rough. The plot revolves around the price of justice, a tragic hero, and journalism. The main genres are drama, thriller, and crime. In terms of style, Veronica Guerin stars a strong female character and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in Ireland. Veronica Guerin takes place in the 1990s. It is originally a true story. The movie has received attention for being an award winner. Note that Veronica Guerin involves violent content.
Summary of Veronica Guerin
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.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Ireland, UK |
| Release date: | 17 October 2003 |
| Runtime: | 92 min |
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Time
Veronica Guerin paid with her life. This film would make her proud, for it is ultimately not depressing but -- we say without a shred of journalistic irony -- inspiring.
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- by: Richard Corliss
San Francisco Chronicle
An arresting portrait of a fascinating and somewhat mysterious personality.
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- by: Mick LaSalle
