Veronica Guerin [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films present ; a Joel Schumacher film ; executive producers, Chad Oman, Mike Stenson, Ned Dowd ; produced by Jerry Bruckheimer ; story by Carol Doyle ; screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue ; directed by Joel Schumacher.
Contributor(s): Schumacher, Joel | Bruckheimer, Jerry | Doyle, Carol | Blanchett, Cate
| McSorley, Gerard | Hinds, Ciaran | Fricker, Brenda | Touchstone Pictures | Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm) | Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm).
Publisher: [United States] : Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2004Description: 2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.Subject(s): Guerin, Veronica, 1958-1996 -- Drama | Journalists -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Drama | Crime and the press -- Ireland -- Dublin -- DramaDDC classification: 791.4372 Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley, Barry Barnes, Simon O'Driscoll, Emmet Bergin, Charlotte Bradley.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.
| Item type | Current location | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Media Resources | Taylor's Library-TU | 791.4372 VER (Browse shelf) | Set of 2 Video discs | 1 | Available | SOMAC,09030,02,GR | 1001009075 |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.
Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley, Barry Barnes, Simon O'Driscoll, Emmet Bergin, Charlotte Bradley.
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.