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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>
Plot Keywords:
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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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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(at around 1h 25 mins) When we see Veronica through the sunroof of her car after she is shot, a hand is visible in the lower right corner of the sunroof, moving in and out of the shot. It appears to be a crew member's hand. See more »Quotes
Veronica Guerin: It'll be worse for me, and it'll be worse for journalism or any journalist if I was to be intimidated. Then that means they've won, and they're not going to win.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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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.