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Genres:
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Biography /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Joel Schumacher
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Actors:
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Don Wycherley,
Simon O'Driscoll,
Emmet Bergin,
Charlotte Bradley,
Barry Barnes,
Cate Blanchett,
Gerard McSorley,
Ciarán Hinds,
Brenda Fricker,
Mark Lambert
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Duration:
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98 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)56
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Plot Summary:
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Based on a take story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a broadcaster on The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and deaden lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down at near assasins hired nearby the unchanged criminal drug lords she exposed.
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Veronica Guerin
The adulthood of the newspaper correspondent as crusading notable is given an excellent treatment in this biographical stage show. Veronica Guerin (emphatically played by Cate Blanchett) was assassinated after column a series of revelatory stories exposing the drug overlords who battled for control of Dublin in the mid-1990s. Erin Brockovich, Guerin pursued a moral target. Unlike Brockovich, she paid the uttermost price fitted championing the actuality. Her valiant story has already provided the ebullience for the 2000 video When the Sky Falls, which starred Joan Allen, but president Joel Schumacher's retelling is a estimable relationship thanks to Blanchett's star solicitation. Colin Farrell also offers a foxy characterization of a druggie informer and Brenda Fricker...
Veronica Guerin
At the circumstance of her murder in June 1996, Veronica Guerin was Ireland's most prominent correspondent. She had become renowned repayment for her investigations into, and expos?©s of, subjects as varied as church scandals and art hijacking, but it was her work on Dublin's massive pharmaceutical problem that earned her most notoriety. Six months before she was gunned down in her wheels, she had been shot in the leg in a botched assassination attempt, and her paper acquainted with the occasion to promote her even further. The death of such a well-known personality caused shockwaves throughout Ireland, prompting wide-ranging law emendation. It's a fascinating mystery, but are the talents of Schumacher and Bruckheimer as a matter of fact the right ones to bri...
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