Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Joel Schumacher take on the real-life story of an assassinated Irish journalist in the dramatic hriller Veronica Guerin. Cate Blanchett appears as the title character, a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early 90s. Guerins violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Irelands laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. The movie picks up with her pursuit of the underground drug trade in Dublin, which she suspects is led by mobster Martin The General Cahill (Gerry OBrien). When Cahills gang is attacked, she suspects mobster Gerry The Monk Hutch (Alan Devine) is responsible. Not deterred by threats or gunshot wounds, she uses thug John Traynor (Ciarán Hinds) as an informer to help out her investigation of psychotic mobster John Gilligan (Gerard McSorley). Schumachers protégé Colin Farell appears in a small role. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide