Veronica Guerin [videorecording (DVD)] / Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films presents a Joel Schumacher film ; producer, Jerry Bruckheimer ; screenplay, Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue ; director, Joel Schumacher.
Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley, Barry Barnes, Simon O'Driscoll, Emmet Bergin, Charlotte Bradley. Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Special features: powerful deleted scene; the real-life Veronica Guerin speaks at the committee to protect journalists; "Public mask, private fears" making-of featurette; "A conversation with Jerry Bruckheimer"; producers photo gallery; two audio commentaries.
Summary:
Veronica Guerin was a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Ireland's laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Picks up with her pursuit of the underground drug trade in Dublin, which she suspects is led by mobster Martin "The General" Cahill. When Cahill's gang is attacked, she suspects mobster Gerry "The Monk" Hutch is responsible. Not deterred by threats or gunshot wounds, she uses thug John Traynor as an informer to help out her investigation of psychotic mobster John Gilligan.
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