Veronica Guerin (movie)

Veronica Guerin is a 2003 film directed by Joel Schumacher. The movie is based on the true story of an Irish journalist Veronica Guerin.

Tagline: Why would anyone want to kill Veronica Guerin?

Selected cast

• Cate Blanchett - Veronica Guerin
• Gerard McSorley - John Gilligan
• Ciarán Hinds - John Traynor
• Colin Farrell - Tattooed Boy

Plot

The film starts with her murder in the Naas Road by two men on a motorcycle on 26 June 1996 and looks back at what brought it on. For more than 18 months, Veronica Guerin (Blanchett), an Irish reporter for The Sunday Independent has been digging into and writing about Dublin's drug trade, starting with the youths who were hooked and working up the big dealers. As she gets close to the biggest crook, John Gilligan (McSorley), she is given a warning shot, a gunshot wound, a beating, and a threat against her young son. Her husband and mother try to dissuade her, as does a key informant, double-dealing John Traynor (Hinds).

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