Dir: Joel Schumaker
Writ: Carol Doyle & Mary Agnes Donoghue
Cate Blanchett …. Veronica Guerin
Gerard McSorley …. John Gilligan
Ciarán Hinds …. John Traynor
Brenda Fricker …. Bernie Guerin
Went to see Veronica Guerin last week. It a film based on the true story of Veronica Guerin, a journalist with the Irish Independent who was murdered in 1996 because of her investigations into organised crime in Dublin.
In the film Cate Blanchett plays Veronica and from what I could see the rest of the cast as played by Irish actors (including a wonderful cameo from Colin Farrell). Its a good film, but watching it I couldn’t help but try and compare it to what I would see as real, and obviously as a film it isn’t/wasn’t real. Still overall it was a good film, that doesn’t really take too many liberties with the truth (or at least what I think of as the truth).
Tags: 1996, 7 Stars, based on true story, Brenda Fricker, Carol Doyle, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, crime in Ireland, Gerard McSorley, Joel Schumaker, Mary Agnes Donoghue, murder, Veronica Guerin
