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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. VERONICA GUERIN, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Joel Schumacher, is the true story of the tenacious Irish crime reporter (Cate Blanchett) who exposed the brutal drug trade in 1990s Dublin. 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. Told in flashback, the film begins at the moment of her brutal assassination in 1996 and moves backwards, telling the story of the last two years of her life. A competitive journalist with no drug background, Veronica started her fierce campaign against Dublin's drug trade after witnessing young children playing with hypodermic needles in the city's slums. At that moment she started interviewing addicts and small-time thugs and what she discovered eventually led her into a fiercely protected inner circle of drug kingpins, controlled by the viciously powerful John Gilligan (Gerard McSorley). What began as a search for a story became Veronica's obsession. Her quest overshadowed her duties as a wife and mother and eventually threatened the lives of her husband and child. Heroic yet reckless, she persevered, and after threats and violent beatings she was assassinated by the very gangsters she threatened to expose.

Cate Blanchett stars as Veronica Guerin in this true story of a journalist who was murdered in Dublin during the mid-1990s. Dublin had become controlled by a group of powerful drug lords and journalist Guerin became their biggest enemy. While balancing her home life with the responsibility to tell the truth ,Guerin put her life at risk and ultimately paid the highest price in the drug barons bid for her silence. Both before and after her death she became a national folk heroine and managed to post-humously make Ireland a safer place.