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	Legally Blonde II and Veronica Guerin
		Veronica Guerin is the factual story of an Irish journalist who risked not only her life, but that of her husband and young son, to expose drug kingpins.
		Veronica is at one pass street-savvy and at another hopelessly naive; she acts recklessly, manipulatively, and stupidly.
		Though shaken, Veronica stays the course with no regard for the consequences of her actions for those she loves.
	www.lowiqcanadian.com /id17.html (646 words)

	Charity's Place.com > Veronica Guerin
		Veronica Guerin has been much overlooked by regular movie-goers, but it's undoubtedly a compelling and forceful interpretation of the life of a unique woman who died for what she thought was right.
		The real-life Veronica Guerin was a well-known Irish journalist whose investigations of the drug lords in Ireland led her into her eventual death.
		The film shows the gradual changes of Veronica Guerin's life as she transforms from an average reporter to a risky journalist whose only goal is to see Ireland's most powerful drug lords in jail.
	www.charitysplace.com /review/veronicaguerin.htm (609 words)

	Veronica Guerin Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Guerin was outraged by the mob activity she documented and frustrated by the inability of the police to bring the crime bosses to justice, so she launched a virtual one-woman crusade to bring down the gangs.
		Guerin interviewed a known con man who was reportedly the chief suspect in the heist and described him as the local head of a crime syndicate.
		Guerin's friends later recalled that although she had always been fearless in her dealings with organized crime figures, she was especially frightened by Gilligan's outburst because he had mentioned the possibility of harming her son.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/veronica-guerin (1646 words)

	Veronica Guerin Summary
		In October 1994, Guerin experienced the first serious repercussions from one of her stories when two bullets were fired through the window of her home as she played with her young son.
		When Guerin was shot in the leg at her home on January 30 1995, some of her critics argued that she had staged the whole thing for publicity purposes.
		On June 26 1996, when Guerin was sitting in her red Opel Calibra at an intersection outside Dublin, one of two men sitting on a motorcycle beside her car fatally shot her five times.
	www.bookrags.com /Veronica_Guerin (2175 words)

	Veronica Guerin
		Veronica Guerin is horrible, really, a passel of forced dramatic slow push-ins framing Blanchett's mannered performance (in a Princess Diana haircut, no less, to really ramp up that pathos) all of insouciantly arched eyebrows and saucy eyeballs and centered dead and soft-lit like a Giotto effigy.
		Soon, Veronica is gaining fame for exposing the horrors of Dublin's inner-city heroin problem even as she's attracting unwanted attention from crime lords and hitmen until, finally, her never-in-question death results in the sort of attention to the problem that her journalism never could.
		Guerin was an irritating investigative reporter and heroin is bad for society, and that's not the basis for a film--it's the basis for a public service announcement against drugs and journalism.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/veronicaguerin.htm (526 words)

	Film Reviews on CLUAS - Veronica Guerin
		As the movie progresses Guerin’s labyrinthine investigations eventually lead her to the door of John Gilligan, a man scarily brought to life by Gerard McSorley in a performance bristling with menace.
		Through no fault of hers “Veronica Guerin” is grievously undermined by a number of fairly fundamental flaws, many of which may be a result of framing its content for the American market and indeed American tastes.
		Perhaps the biggest flaw of “Veronica Guerin” is its simplistic and rather airbrushed approach to the results of Guerin’s enquiries and the consequences of her death.
	www.cluas.com /cinema/veronica_guerin.htm (497 words)

	Veronica Guerin
		Veronica Guerin was a fearless, muckraking Irish journalist who was murdered in 1996 by gangsters who were embarrassed by her stories.
		Guerin worked her own hours, wrote from home, rarely entered the newsroom, and was not chummy with other reporters, many of whom resented her relatively swift rise to the top of her profession and her unconventional methods.
		Guerin, whose son was six when she was killed, had said she would quit the paper if she weren't allowed to stay on the crime beat; Fanning never forced her hand.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2003/6/guerin-cullen.asp (760 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Veronica Guerin
		On the one hand we have Guerin's bravery in exposing Ireland's main criminal players; on the other we see her recklessness in pursuit of the bad guys with scant regard for her family, her friends and, most of all, herself.
		It is this fine line that anchors the story in the realm of credibility, allowing the narrative to explore Guerin's relationship with family, colleagues, the Gardaí and the criminal fraternity itself.
		The tenacity, stubbornness and earthy charm we all associate with Veronica Guerin is played to perfection by the Australian, while the fact that she also convinces us on a cosmetic level is a further endorsement.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0710/veronicaguerin.html (616 words)

	Modamag.com \| Veronica Guerin - Movie Review
		Over the course of two years, Guerin fought her way into the laps of the drug barons with the help of her informant (Ciaran Hinds, “The Sum Of All Fears“), sacrificing her family and social obligations in an attempt to expose these criminals.
		But Schumacher and the screenplay also keep the danger in Guerin’s life alive and authentic, as she was the victim of many attempts on her life, and was the recipient of more threats than one could count.
		Schumacher maintains a balance between Guerin the crusader and Guerin the reckless journalist, who’s desire for the scoop and overall progress overshadowed her ability to clearly perceive the danger she was in.
	www.modamag.com /veronicaguerin.htm (478 words)

	VERONICA GUERIN
		Veronica's investigation into the skag trade leads her into a seedy underworld which contains the likes of Martin "The General" Cahill (Gerry O'Brien).
		One of the problems I have with Guerin (the film, not the woman) is the fact the filmmakers reveal the ending of the story in both the trailer and in the opening minutes of the film itself.
		Because Guerin is not a well-known personality on this side of the Atlantic, this gravely diminishes the impact of the climax to the point where everything leading up to it becomes rather trivial from a cinematic standpoint.
	www.sick-boy.com /veronica.htm (499 words)

	"Veronica Guerin" - Salon
		Guerin gets a tip from a longtime source, a criminal named John Traynor (Ciarán Hinds), identifying the perpetrator of a recent murder (in fact, it's the killing of Martin Cahill, the subject of John Boorman's movie "The General").
		Guerin was famous for visiting her quarry at their homes and in one scene, when she confronts the drug kingpin John Gilligan (Gerard McSorley) at his home, he beats her viciously.
		Watching the scene you can't help but feel that Guerin was thinking only of the drama, of how her brave confrontation with a gangster would play in print, and not of the danger, which seems both foreseeable and avoidable.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/10/17/veronica/index.html (1248 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Veronica Guerin at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I've never heard of Veronica Guerin before seeing this movie, but she was a real life Irish journalist who took on the local drug mob and was murdered in the process.
		This film puts so much focus on the Veronica Guerin character that it fails to build up the whole point of what she was doing and what she died for.
		She portrays Guerin as a fearless journalist who had a lot of pride in what she was doing.
	www.epinions.com /content_174607208068 (687 words)

	Veronica Guerin Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Cate Blanchett plays Guerin as a woman with a true talent for getting in the face of bad men, including Martin Cahill (Gerry O'Brien), the gangster immortalized in John Boorman's The General, and John Traynor (Ciaran Hinds), a used car dealer and pimp with friends in even lower places.
		Veronica Guerin ought to be emotionally resonant as it tells the story of a woman cut down in the prime of life, a wife, and mother of a young son.
		Surely, the real Veronica was a little bit smarter than she is here, when she announces to Traynor that she is about to expose him in the Sunday paper.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=137993 (1398 words)

	Veronica Guerin mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Continuity: When Veronica and her work colleagues are in the pub, there is a football match on the television.
		Continuity: In the scene where Veronica is sitting at her computer working and her husband is upset with her, she disconnects her headphones from the stereo, pulls them off, and puts them around her neck.
		Veronica Guerin is set in 1994-1996 but the Ulysses was built around 1999.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film3424 (469 words)

	MCN Review : Veronica Guerin
		Veronica Guerin is an ill-fitting combination of ripped from the headlines true life crime saga and glossy biography caught up in the razzle-dazzle of self importance that's sunk many a serious picture.
		The real-life Guerin was a Dublin journalist who segued from writing lifestyle pieces to investigating the inner workings of Ireland's vicious criminal gangs.
		It's an epidemic neither the press nor politicians want to address and her contacts in the city's criminal community are all too eager to point fingers at rival mobsters as the social pariahs preying on poverty and high unemployment.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/veronica_guerin.html (587 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Veronica Guerin [2003]: DVD: Cate Blanchett,Gerard McSorley,Ciarán Hinds,Brenda Fricker,Don ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Veronica Guerin's intense dedication to her journalism, reckless hunger for the truth, and profound sense of social responsibility is grippingly portrayed by Blanchett in a magnetic performance.
		Veronica Guerin is the powerful story everyone knows of the famous Irish Reporter for the Sunday Independant murdered for sinking too deep in to the dark, dirty, malevolent world of Drug Barons in Dublin.
		Veronica is the true saint of Ireland and proved herself and her country by committing and not giving up; something if a few more people did, less problems would exsist.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Veronica-Guerin-Cate-Blanchett/dp/B0000TZ7GI (1501 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| The second fall of Veronica Guerin
		When the renowned crime reporter Veronica Guerin was gunned down on the outskirts of Dublin in June 1996 she became a modern-day Irish saint.
		This week a new book, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter, is being published in Britain that claims Ms Guerin was ruthless, devious and - worst of all - a bad mother.
		Mrs O'Reilly says Ms Guerin blurred the line between journalist and detective in her hunt for a story and made herself and her son a target.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/86191.stm (548 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Veronica Guerin
		This is her bestest, stunningest, most remarkably surefooted performance ever, but I think I've said that about each of her previous roles, I'll probably say that about the next one, too, and the one after that, and the one after that.
		Guerin -- this is her true story -- was an investigative reporter for Ireland's Sunday Independent newspaper when she was shot and killed in 1996 by the drug kingpin she was about to expose.
		And it's all seen through Guerin's eyes -- her innocence is the one shattered as she gets closer to the source of Dublin's misery and her own, with the threats against her and her family ever increasing.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2003/veronicaguerin.shtml (718 words)

	Veronica Guerin (2003) Starring: Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds - Three Movie Buffs Review
		Together they make up the colorful group of characters who filled Veronica's life, from the criminals she dealt with on a daily basis, to her friends in the Police force, her family, fellow journalists, and even the politicians she began to know as her stories of Dublin's underworld caused her fame to grow.
		Veronica's investigations were done mainly on the streets, pubs, and brothels in Dublin's seedier district.
		If there is any consolation to be found in the tragic loss of Veronica Guerin, it is that because of her death, the public and the Irish Government finally woke up to the problems that Veronica had been writing about for some many years.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=veronicaguerin (982 words)

	Glemalure - Veronica Guerin
		Veronica was the crime reporter for the Sunday Independant investigating the criminal underworld in Ireland when she was gunned down in 1996.
		Golden Globe winner Cate Blanchett (The Lord of the Rings, Elizabeth) stars in Veronica Guerin, the critically acclaimed, powerful and poignant true story about a journalist who risked her life in search of the truth.
		Their most fearsome opponent was not the police but the courageous Veronica Guerin (Blanchett), who investigated and exposed the ‘pushers’, balancing her home and family against her responsibility to her readers and her country.
	www.glenmalure.com /logcabin/dvd/veronicaguerin.htm (174 words)

	Veronica Guerin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Based on the true story of an Irish reporter who launched a journalistic assault on Dublin's drug dealers and was subsequently murdered, "Veronica Guerin" is producer Jerry Bruckheimer's attempt to veer away from the populist action fare he is known for.
		Cate Blanchett plays Veronica Guerin, a well-known reporter for Dublin's Sunday Indepedent who decides to investigate drug dealing after she witnesses the horrible consequences of drug use on children.
		It is refreshing that somebody as courageous as Veronica Guerin, whose death had a profound impact on Ireland, is subject of a film.
	www.inkandashes.net /veronica_guerin.html (584 words)

	Veronica Guerin
		One significant difference is that while Erin Brockovich ends up with fortune and success, Veronica Guerin was – well, just Google it – Guerin was shot by the drug lords she was investigating in 1996.
		Although Veronica Guerin is much more likable than Brockovich, she’s not nearly as enjoyable to watch as Julia Roberts’ character was.
		I’m grateful for people like Veronica Guerin who are willing to fight for what is right and I hope this film will lead to a greater awareness of the need for government attention towards drug trafficking.
	www.filmnote.com /Film/V/VeronicaGuerin.htm (378 words)

	The GATE :: Review of 'Veronica Guerin' Starring Cate Blanchett
		Veronica Guerin takes on the concept of right and wrong, and what it means to actually do the right thing, while others just do what's easy and ignore the issue.
		The marvelous Cate Blanchett stars as Veronica Guerin, a feisty, opinionated, and driven reporter for the Dublin Sunday Independent who decides to take on the crime lords who are polluting Ireland with drugs in the late 1990's.
		In the face of these dangers though, Guerin manages to go on, doing what she must to make any difference she thinks she can.
	www.thegate.ca /reviews/veronica-guerin.php (629 words)

	Veronica Guerin News
		Ripley," "Veronica Guerin," "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and her Academy Award-winning turn in "The Aviator." She currently stars in "Babel" and will appear in the...
		The Australian actress has become accomplished in using foreign accents during her career in movies such as Elizabeth and Veronica Guerin, to the extent that she found it harder to return to her own country's...
		Family and friends of Veronica Guerin, the investigative reporter whose slaying shocked Ireland and triggered a government crackdown on organized crime, laid flowers and prayed Monday near the spot where she...
	www.topix.net /movies/veronica-guerin (507 words)

	Veronica Guerin (2003)
		But their most fearsome opponent wasn't the police, it was the courageous Veronica Guerin (Blanchett).
		Veronica Guerin appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		While Veronica Guerin undeniably presents a powerful story, it does so in such a thin and superficial manner that it almost totally blunts the impact.
	www.dvdmg.com /veronicaguerin.shtml (2374 words)

	Amazon.ca: Veronica Guerin: Music: Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is an excellent soundtrack to grace the upcoming Cate Blanchette vehicle, 'Veronica Guerin,' which chronicles the true-crime story of the film's namesake heroine -- an intrepid Irish reporter who tackles the Emerald Isle Mafia in an attempt to get the ultimate story...and tragically loses her life.
		Guerin's incredible adventures while on her way to death, then the film will be superb.
		In between, we have mood music fit for an exciting and melancholy true-crime story -- lots of broody strings ideal for a fog-swagged day, probably like the one in which Veronica Guerin, poor soul, was murdered at a stoplight by the evildoers who were intent upon silencing her forever.
	www.amazon.ca /Veronica-Guerin-Soundtrack/dp/B0000C7PV2 (548 words)

	Veronica Guerin
		"Veronica Guerin" begins with a seemingly humorous scene in which her mother asks the parish priest to pray that her daughter's driver's license be revoked.
		With this shockingly violent scene "Veronica Guerin" begins its story of the woman who has become an Irish hero, a champion of the press and the doggedly determined router of the bad guys.
		Brief family scenes reveal Guerin as a devoted though absentee mother and wife, raising the curious question as to why she would put her loved ones in harm's way for a story.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /20036q/id1925.htm (669 words)

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