The Guard (2011 film)
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| Directed by | John Michael McDonagh |
| Produced by | Chris Clark Flora Fernandez-Marengo Ed Guiney Andrew Lowe |
| Written by | John Michael McDonagh |
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Brendan Gleeson Don Cheadle Mark Strong Liam Cunningham Fionnula Flanagan |
| Music by | Calexico |
| Cinematography | Larry Smith |
| Edited by | Chris Gill |
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Irish Film Board
Reprisal Films Element Pictures Crescendo Productions Aegis Film Fund Prescience RTÉ UK Film Council |
| Distributed by | Element Pictures (Ireland) StudioCanal UK (United Kingdom) Sony Pictures Classics (United States) |
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92 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English Irish |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $19.6 million |
The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham. It is the most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006), which previously held this status.
The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success. Both Gleeson and Cheadle received acclaim for their performances, with Gleeson receiving a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a Sergeant in the Garda Síochána, stationed in the Connemara Gaeltacht of western Ireland. He is crass, confrontational, and regularly indulges in alcohol, narcotics, and prostitutes while on duty. Despite this, Sgt. Boyle lives by a very strict ethical code and shows love and concern for his ailing mother, Eileen (Fionnula Flanagan). Boyle joins his new subordinate, Garda Aidan McBride (Rory Keenan), to investigate a murder in their jurisdiction, with evidence apparently pointing to an occult serial killer. Shortly after, Boyle attends a briefing by FBI Special Agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle). Agent Everett has been sent to liaise with the Garda in hunting down four Irish drug traffickers, led by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (Liam Cunningham), who are believed to have arranged a seaborne shipment of cocaine worth an estimated US$500 million (US$0.5 billion). To Everett's shock, Boyle recognises one of the men in Everett's slide show as the victim of the murder he and McBride had been investigating.
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