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Veronica Guerin

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Cate Blanchett in Veronica Guerin (2003)
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An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
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    • Joel Schumacher
    • Carol Doyle(story)
    • Mary Agnes Donoghue(screenplay)
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    • Cate Blanchett
    • Colin Farrell
    • Brenda Fricker
    • Joel Schumacher
    • Carol Doyle(story)
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    Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    • Veronica Guerin
    Colin Farrell
    Colin Farrell
    • Tattooed Boy
    Brenda Fricker
    Brenda Fricker
    • Bernie Guerin
    Ciarán Hinds
    Ciarán Hinds
    • John Traynor
    Gerard McSorley
    Gerard McSorley
    • John Gilligan
    Don Wycherley
    Don Wycherley
    • Chris Mulligan
    Barry Barnes
    • Graham Turley
    Simon O'Driscoll
    • Cathal Turley
    Emmet Bergin
    • Aengus Fanning
    Charlotte Bradley
    • Anne Harris
    Mark Lambert
    • Willie Kealy
    Garrett Keogh
    • Tony Gregory
    Maria McDermottroe
    • Geraldine Gilligan
    Paudge Behan
    • Brian Meehan
    Joe Hanley
    • Eugene 'Dutchie' Holland
    David Murray
    David Murray
    • Charles Bowden
    Karl Shiels
    Karl Shiels
    • Gilligan Gang Member #1
    Barry McEvoy
    Barry McEvoy
    • Gilligan Gang Member #2
      • Joel Schumacher
      • Carol Doyle(story) (screenplay)
      • Mary Agnes Donoghue(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      The dance scene where Veronica dances with her family to "Everlasting Love" was added in on the spot by Cate Blanchett.
    • Goofs
      Tony Gregory has not worn a tie in public since his election in 1982. It has caused much debate in the Irish Parliament because of its dress code.
    • Quotes

      Veronica Guerin: You'd do the same. If you saw those kids on the street, you would do the same.

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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."
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Intolerable Cruelty/Kill Bill: Vol. 1/Mystic River/Veronica Guerin (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Funeral Song
      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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    10/10
    Cate Blanchett Exposes Hollywood
    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.
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      • October 17, 2003 (United States)
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      • United States
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      • Naas, County Kildare, Ireland
    • Production companies
      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Jerry Bruckheimer Films
      • Persevere Productions Ltd.
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