Not the household name in the U.S. that she was in her native Ireland, journalist Veronica Guerin went head to head with Dublin's underworld and paid with her life for the naive belief that being a member of the press somehow insulated her from violence. Guerin's story was first filmed in 1999, three years after her death, as WHEN THE SKY FALLS. Where that film used pseudonyms to protect innocent and guilty alike, Joel Schumacher's slick and eminently watchable film, from a screenplay by Carol Doyle and Mary Agnes Donoghue, names names and is a bracing antidote to fashionable press bashing. There's never any question but that Guerin (Cate Blanchett) was a brave and p...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins