Veronica Guerin (Blu-ray) PG-13
Why would anyone want to kill Veronica Guerin?
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 4, 2019
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cate Blanchett | |
Performer: | Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker & Gerard McSorley | |
Directed by | Joel Schumacher | |
Screenwriting by | Carol Doyle & Mary Agnes Donoghue | |
Composition by | Harry Gregson-Williams | |
Story by | Carol Doyle | |
Cameo: | Colin Farrell | |
Produced by | Jerry Bruckheimer | |
Director of Photography: | Brendan Galvin | |
Executive Production by | Chad Oman, Ned Dowd & Mike Stenson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
As movie material, Veronica Guerin's life could have benefited from the gutsy probing the woman herself was renowned for.
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Toronto Star
...A surprisingly unadorned, straightforward and effective movie....Schumacher renders the Dublin underworld with vivid detail, and he works superbly with his actors...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Rating: 3/5 --
Blanchett nearly saves it, but it's too much a plastic-Jesus biopic.
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eFilmCritic.com
Blanchett gets the accent impeccably, and encompasses both the woman's determined heroism and her delight in the picture byline, but neither she nor the screenplay digs any deeper than secular hagiography.
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Time Out
Cate Blanchett is a vital presence as Veronica and should have romantic teenagers lining up to get into journalism school.
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Observer (UK)
...Cate Blanchett gives one of her best performances as Guerin...
Premiere
While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Product 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.
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.
Keywords:
Justice
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Reporters
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Police
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Ireland
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Journalists / Journalism
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Criminals
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Biographical
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1990s
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,299
- UPC: 738329232306
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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