Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin (2003)

  • 54% of critics liked it
    (136 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (8,476 ratings)

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joel Schumacher take on the real-life story of an assassinated Irish journalist in the dramatic thriller Veronica Guerin. Cate Blanchett appears as the title character, a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's… More

R, 1 hr. 38 min.
Directed By
Joel Schumacher
Written By
Carol Doyle, Mary Agnes Donoghue
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 17, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Mar 16, 2004
Buena Vista Distribution Compa

Critic Reviews

  • J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

    Well-meaning but simpleminded.

  • Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

    While I was watching Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett, I kept imagining the movie it might have been before director Joel Schumacher and producer Jerry Bruckheimer got their hands on it.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    As movie material, Veronica Guerin's life could have benefited from the gutsy probing the woman herself was renowned for.

  • Charles Taylor, Salon.com

    You don't need subtlety for a movie like this -- which is fortunate considering that Schumacher is the director -- but you need a kind of craft that Schumacher doesn't possess.

  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

    The movie never adequately explains the inner conflicts that led its relentless-reporter heroine to die.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Joseph M


    "Veronica Guerin" is a moving, tense, dramatic thriller about the life of Irish Reporter, Veronica Guerin and her relentless single handed exposure of Dublin's Criminal, drug fuelled underworld. However, the film is heavily misguided and is shabbily directed and… More

  • moon r


    As a slice of Irish history (the 1990's) this star vehicle is invaluable, swapping the quaint and rustic land o'leprechans movie Ireland usually seen for a truer portrait, peopled by normal modern folk. But, they've left out why anyone would make the sacrifices this… More

  • familiar s


    Powerful stuff based on true story of a brave lady journalist. Very much watchable.

  • Robert C


    Aside from the state of Dublin that is shown at the begining of this film, there were no real surprises here for me. Though a bit predictable at times, it is still a good film. As sad as it is to say, it is people like Veronica Guerin (who do the right thing to spite the risks… More

  • Mason W


    A grand film all around for the actors and the script. Cate Blanchett shines as the fact based story of a very outspoken and hardworknig Irish woman. Many things come at a cost being threatened is just the beginning. The very talened Brenda Fricker co-stars along with Colin Farrell.

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