Veronica Guerin

Movie (2003)

Tense fact-based drama chronicling the life of tenacious crime reporter Veronica Guerin (the always reliable Cate Blanchett), who set out to expose Ireland's crime lords, but ended up paying the ultimate price for her determination to bring them down. The film opens with the journalist's assassination, then traces the events that brought her to this point, as she attempts to establish a link between Dublin's drugs trade and infamous gangster Martin 'The General' Cahill. Instead, she discovers a ruthless conflict between rival criminal factions. Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds and Brenda Fricker co-star, with Colin Farrell as one of Blanchett's informants.