Veronica Guerin
(DVD) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.

Special features: Featurettes: Public mask, private fears (13 min.); Conversations with Jerry Bruckheimer (21 min.); Optional audio features: Commentary by director Joel Schumacher; Commentary by writers Mary Agnes Donoghue and Carol Doyle; Deleted scene: Veronica speaks at the C.P.J. (2 min.); Veronica Guerin speaks at the Committee to Protect Journalists (4 min.); Producers photo gallery [slide show] (7 min.); Sneak peeks (6 min.).

Director of photography, Brendan Galvin ; editor, David Gamble ; original music, Harry Gregson-Williams ; costume designer, Joan Bergin ; production designer, Nathan Crowley ; art director, Patrick Lumb ; visual effects supervisor, Steve Murgatroyd ; special effects supervisor, Kevin Byrne.

Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley, Barry Barnes, Simon O'Driscoll, Emmet Bergin, Charlotte Bradley.

Based on real-life events, the film tells the story of Dublin journalist Veronica Guerin, a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. In 1994, Guerin--who had previously been reporting corporate corruption and church scandals--turned her attention to Ireland's increasing drug problem. Her investigations, however, brought her to the attention of Dublin's crime underworld; the deeper she dug, the more danger she found herself in. Guerin's violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Ireland's laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau, allowing the government to seize dealer assets. After Guerin's death and the resultant investigations and arrests, drug crimes in Ireland dropped by fifty percent.

MPAA rating: Rated R for violence, language, and some drug content; Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.

DVD; Region 1 (North America), NTSC; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, DTS 5.1 surround sound; widescreen presentation, 2.35:1 aspect ratio, enhanced for 16x9 televisions.

In English or dubbed French with optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.