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The Guard
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.
2011 · Directed by John Michael McDonagh · 96 min · Action · Comedy · Thriller · Crime · 15 frames
Tagline
The FBI are about to discover that things work a little differently around here.
Crew
- Written by: John Michael McDonagh
- Cinematography: Larry Smith
- Edited by: Chris Gill
- Music: John Convertino, Joey Burns, Calexico
- Production design: John Paul Kelly
- Produced by: Flora Fernandez Marengo, Chris Clark, Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney
Cast
- Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle
- Don Cheadle as FBI agent Wendell Everett
- Liam Cunningham as Francis Sheehy
- Mark Strong as Clive Cornell
- Katarina Čas as Gabriela McBride
- David Wilmot as Liam O'Leary
- Rory Keenan as Garda Aidan McBride
- Laurence Kinlan as Photographer
- Dominique McElligott as Aoife O'Carroll
- Sarah Greene as Sinead Mulligan
Production
- Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Irish, English
- Studios: Prescience, UK Film Council, Reprisal Films, Aegis Film Fund
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Box office: $19,560,274
- Themes: prostitute, drug smuggling, blackmail, rural area, ireland, buddy cop, cops, irish
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