Veronica Guerin
by Joel Schumacher
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Actor: Brenda Fricker, Cate Blanchett, Ciar?n Hinds, Don Wycherley, Gerard McSorleyDirector: Joel Schumacher
Brand: BLANCHETT,CATE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Veronica Guerin
Movie Review: A moving and gripping film
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was a brilliant film, very moving and non-sensational. The performance Cate Blanchett gives is outstanding, and the film tells the story of a brave journalist very well. I also thought it covered a lot of interesting issues and I would strongly recommend it.
Summary of Veronica Guerin
In the mid-90s dublin was nothing short of a war zone with a few powerful drug lords battling for control. Their most fearsome opponent was not the police but the courageous journalist veronica guerin who covered the crime beat with unmatched intensity. Based on a true story. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/10/2006 Starring: Cate Blanchett Gerard Mcsorley Run time: 98 minutes Rating: RIreland's most beloved and tragic contemporary hero/martyr gets the Hollywood treatment in the fact-based thriller Veronica Guerin, an average film made recommendable for a fine performance by Cate Blanchett in the title role. The life, work, and assassination of the slain Irish journalist is respectfully chronicled in this gritty, streetwise biopic by director Joel Schumacher, beginning with her 1996 murder (by Irish gangsters) and flashing back to her diligent efforts, begun in 1994, to expose the drug trade that plagued Ireland for most of the decade. Blanchett is flawless in a role that combines passion, courage, and recklessness in a way that doesn't sugar-coat Guerin's character or imbue her with artificial heroics. Unfortunately, Schumacher (who makes room for an unbilled Colin Farrell cameo) and a naggingly unsophisticated screenplay turn Guerin's complex story into a conventionally accessible thriller that sometimes seems too good to be true, which is ironic given that Guerin's story was fictionalized in the marginally better 2000 film When the Sky Falls, starring Joan Allen. Recommendable for Blanchett's performance and two memorably villainous roles for Ciar?n Hinds and Gerald McSorley, Veronica Guerin is an adequate tribute that could and should have been exceptional. --Jeff Shannon
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