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Veronica Guerin (2003) 6.8
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Metascore: 55/100
Reviews: 107 user | 105 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com An Irish journalist is assassinated by drug dealers she wrote about in a series of stories. Director:Joel Schumacher |
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| Gerard McSorley | ... | ||
| Ciarán Hinds | ... | ||
| Brenda Fricker | ... |
Bernie Guerin
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Graham Turley
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Anne Harris
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Brian Meehan
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Eugene 'Dutchie' Holland
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Charles Bowden
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Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed. Written by Andreas Furumo <andreas.furumo@bredband.net>
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Why would anyone want to kill Veronica Guerin?Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for violence, language and some drug content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
17 October 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Chasing the Dragon: The Veronica Guerin Story See more »Box Office
Budget:
$17,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$611,276 (USA) (17 October 2003)Gross:
$1,569,918 (USA) (28 November 2003)Company Credits
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Martin Cahill: [genially but menacingly] Ah Jamey, Jamey, Jamey. You're an awful man, d'you know that? What did you have to go and shoot your mouth off to the Gards about me for? Did you think I wouldn't find out it was you? You know, I was thinking about killing you. And then I thought to myself, you know, sure, people get killed every day - and nobody gives a shite. So I've decided I'm going to have to hurt you a bit.
Jamey the Tout: [mumbling through gag] Jesus, no!
Martin Cahill:
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Written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden
Published by Peter Maurice Ltd Co Ltd
Performed by U2
Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Limited
Licensed by kind permission from the Film & TV Licensing Division, Part of the Universal Music Group
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Trivia
While watching a football match together, Veronica (Cate Blanchett) tells to the "Tattooed Boy" ('Colin Farrell') that "once she met Eric Cantona" (famous football player from the '90s). Blanchett and Cantona worked together in Elizabeth. See more »Goofs
All the telephones have the American 'Single' ringing tone, rather than the correct 'double' ringing tone. See more »Quotes
[to an informer who is bound and gagged in a derelict flat]Martin Cahill: [genially but menacingly] Ah Jamey, Jamey, Jamey. You're an awful man, d'you know that? What did you have to go and shoot your mouth off to the Gards about me for? Did you think I wouldn't find out it was you? You know, I was thinking about killing you. And then I thought to myself, you know, sure, people get killed every day - and nobody gives a shite. So I've decided I'm going to have to hurt you a bit.
Jamey the Tout: [mumbling through gag] Jesus, no!
Martin Cahill:
[...]
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Crazy Credits
Disclaimer in closing credits: "Chris Mulligan is a fictional composite character based in part on several different people, and certain events in which the character is depicted have been fictionalised for dramatic effect." See more »Soundtracks
"Everlasting Love"Written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden
Published by Peter Maurice Ltd Co Ltd
Performed by U2
Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Limited
Licensed by kind permission from the Film & TV Licensing Division, Part of the Universal Music Group
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Cate Blanchett has done it again - played someone you can't take your eyes off of, and not because she's a classic beauty but she's just a good actress and plays such intense roles. Here, she's the single-minded outraged Irish reporter out to expose the drug trafficking in Ireland in the mid 1990s. Yes, it's based on a real person, a very real Veronica Guerin, who took her life in her hands with her desire to have this problem taken care off so the kids in her country wouldn't have such easy access to harmful drugs.
According to the film story, the drug problem was ignored or the police were just ineffective in dealing with it, so Guerin goes after the mob as an investigative reporter. Her husband pleads with her to stop, knowing she could easily be killed. The gangsters were tough and realistically portrayed on film. There is no talk-now-shoot-later nonsense. You mess with them, you will pay. That's the message they give Guerin and you'll have to see the film to find out what happened.
Yup, this is an attention-getter from the start and especially with Blanchett in the lead. A good story and highly recommended.