Release Date: 3/16/2004 Original Release: 2003 Format: DVD Length: 98 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: violence, language, and some drug content UPC: 786936226386 Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Additional Release Material: Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary Featurette: 1. Veronica Guerin at the Committee to Protect Journalists 2. "Public Mask, Private Fears" - Making-of 3. "A Conversation with Jerry Bruckheimer" Text/Photo Galleries: Producer's Photo Gallery
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