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Veronica Guerin
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Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley
Directed By: Joel Schumacher
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BLANCHETT,CATE
EAN: 0786936226386
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-03-16
Running Time: 98
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-10-17
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Ireland's most beloved and tragic contemporary hero/martyr gets the Hollywood treatment in the fact-based thriller Veronica Guerin, an average film made recommendable for a fine performance by Cate Blanchett in the title role. The life, work, and assassination of the slain Irish journalist is respectfully chronicled in this gritty, streetwise biopic by director Joel Schumacher, beginning with her 1996 murder (by Irish gangsters) and flashing back to her diligent efforts, begun in 1994, to expose the drug trade that plagued Ireland for most of the decade. Blanchett is flawless in a role that combines passion, courage, and recklessness in a way that doesn't sugar-coat Guerin's character or imbue her with artificial heroics. Unfortunately, Schumacher (who makes room for an unbilled Colin Farrell cameo) and a naggingly unsophisticated screenplay turn Guerin's complex story into a conventionally accessible thriller that sometimes seems too good to be true, which is ironic given that Guerin's story was fictionalized in the marginally better 2000 film When the Sky Falls, starring Joan Allen. Recommendable for Blanchett's performance and two memorably villainous roles for Ciarán Hinds and Gerald McSorley, Veronica Guerin is an adequate tribute that could and should have been exceptional. --Jeff Shannon
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Summary: Review Veronica Guerin
Comment: A fact-filled "documentary" about Dublins recent past...concerning a Journalistand her impact on drugs and drug-dealing and organised crime in Ireland. Played with quality by Cate Blanchette (I love her) ...but seemed lacking in some of the qualities that make a good movie.......more background into the other characters, maybe more of an embelishment all around, in all aspects.
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Summary: Troubling Hagiographic Bio-Pic
Comment: "Veronica Guerin" (2003), a biographical/true crime/drama/thriller, is set in recent times in Dublin, Ireland, tells an Irish story, has a largely Irish cast, but appears to have been largely American-made. And that's only one of the puzzling things about this movie. Story and screenplay are credited to Carol Doyle; direction is by Joel Schumacher; Jerry Bruckheimer, with his typical largesse - the brightest colors, and the most possible action-- gets the production credit. The film received one Golden Globes nomination.
The movie plays like a hagiography of its title character, (Cate Blanchett), a crusading journalist, determined to wipe out the Dublin drug trade. Brenda Fricker plays her worried mother, Bernie Guerin. For the other side, Gerald McSorley gives us a chilling portrait of gangster boss John Gilligan; Ciaran Hinds, a seedy street level thug, John Traynor. (From the tough, hard-edged performances given us by these gentlemen, it seems possible that a quiet class antagonism underlies some of the violence in the picture.) Further, Colin Farrell turns up in a brief cameo as a tattooed young man, without billing, who knows why.
Blanchett, remarkable cheekbones and all, gives us an intense, highly watchable performance as Guerin. Is she too pretty for the character? Too delicately made? How true is the movie to life? That's puzzling, too. The film seems to portray its leading character as reckless to a foolhardy degree. She's a daughter, a sister, a wife, and the mother of a young child, yet she ignores threats on her life, and the child's, an actual beating, and a gun-shot wound. (The film opens with her assassination; so I don't think I can be spoiling it for anyone by discussing it.) We have recently developed the concept of "suicide by cop;" that is, a person has had enough of it all but hasn't the courage to pull the trigger and end it. So he creates a situation in which a cop will have to do it. Seemed to me Guerin was almost going for "suicide by gangster," creating confrontations with people she knew to be violent.
Her assassination does lead to hearings held, laws changed, ill-gotten gains confiscated, perhaps a dozen men imprisoned, and a blip in the drug trade. For that, she paid a high price, as did her family. On a quite recent trip to Ireland, several people mentioned, without prompting, that the drug problem among the youth of the country is still severe. Observers might think that this drug use is caused by widespread social problems the country has yet to solve, and that, where there's a market, ways will be found to supply it.
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Summary: She died doing what we all know we should
Comment: This was a great movie. I believe every adult should see it; I have it in my home and recommend it to any adult wanting to borrow a movie. This woman tried to make the world a better place and she was murdered for it. I will never forget her name.
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Summary: Definite Must See-Paudge behan & Cate Blanchett
Comment: Based on a true story Veronica Guerin will hold your attention and grab your heart from the first. Cate Blanchett is beyond words as she plays the part of reporter Veronica Guerin, the only thing that was lacking in this movie was the small part of Paudge Behan, he should have been cast in one of the leading roles, he is so good and yet so under appreciated. I wish more directors would take notice of his broad range of abilites and cast him more, they are truly missing out. Don't miss this one it is on my, will not get rid of rack!
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Summary: This movie will change your life.
Comment: An old horse trainer once told me "The hardest thing is to find out what the right thing is, but when you find out what that right thing is, the hardest thing is not to do it." This is a moving portrayal center-pinned around a headstrong Irish female journalist who refused to back down from her mission of exposing Ireland's corrupt drug underground in the mid 1990's. A pleasing departure from stereotyped casting - setting is well done and character treatment is deeply explored! The characters in Veronica Guerin are complex and ring truer to life than one might expect. Veronica Guerin is nobly portrayed. Highly recommended.
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