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Cast
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| Cate Blanchett | ... | Veronica Guerin | |
| Gerard McSorley | ... | John Gilligan | |
| Ciarán Hinds | ... | John Traynor | |
| Brenda Fricker | ... | Bernie Guerin | |
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Don Wycherley | ... | Chris Mulligan |
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Barry Barnes | ... | Graham Turley |
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Simon O'Driscoll | ... | Cathal Turley |
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Emmet Bergin | ... | Aengus Fanning |
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Charlotte Bradley | ... | Anne Harris |
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Mark Lambert | ... | Willie Kealy |
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Garrett Keogh | ... | Tony Gregory |
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Maria McDermottroe | ... | Geraldine Gilligan |
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Paudge Behan | ... | Brian Meehan |
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Joe Hanley | ... | Eugene 'Dutchie' Holland |
| David Murray | ... | 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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strong female lead | strong female character | tough woman | murder of a journalist | shooting a woman |Taglines:
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 »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$17,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£271,996 (United Kingdom), 13 July 2003, Limited ReleaseOpening Weekend USA:
$611,276, 19 October 2003, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$1,571,504, 6 June 2013Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$9,439,660, 6 June 2013Company Credits
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2.39 : 1
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Written by Harry Gregson-Williams, Hugh Marsh, Patrick Cassidy and Trevor Horn
Produced by Trevor Horn
Performed by Sinéad O'Connor
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The Irish Film Censor, who passed the film with a 15PG (now defunct, but equal to 15A) certificate, acknowledged on the official Film Censor website, that had this film been fiction, or of any other plot source than it was, it would probably have received an 18 certificate. See more »Goofs
At one point, Veronica is working at home, wearing headphones while listening to music. Her husband asks her to come to bed. Veronica takes of her headphones to chat with him. In the next shot, when they are dancing, she is wearing the headphones again. See more »Quotes
Veronica Guerin: You think I want to do this, do ya? I don't want to do it, I have to do it!See more »
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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
Funeral SongWritten by Harry Gregson-Williams, Hugh Marsh, Patrick Cassidy and Trevor Horn
Produced by Trevor Horn
Performed by Sinéad O'Connor
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Just as Veronica Guerin exposed Ireland's underworld drug dealers, Cate Blanchett's marvelous portrayal of Irish journalist-turned-anti-drug-crusader Veronica Guerin seemed to have the actress on a mission to prove that you don't have to look like a pop diva or act like a porn star to be a compelling female lead in a film.
Like many films with an ethnic flavor, we get a supporting cast of ethnic actors in slightly elevated roles from the norm. Most notable from that category are Gerard McSorley as the evil drug-lord, John Gilligan, and Ciaran Hands as street thug John Traynor, who plays both sides of the fence throughout the film.
The story is painful, not only because of what happens to Guerin, but in our knowing that her courage is a direct reaction to our general apathy towards wrongdoing, with so many of us looking the other way that the Veronica Guerins of the world are encouraged to fight evil after the fact, but left as sitting ducks or thrown to the wolves while they are still alive and making noise.
If there's one lesson every viewer of this film should exit with, it is that those of us who are not part of the solution, are part of the problem.