Movie
The Guard
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2011-07-07
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Prescience, UK Film Council, Reprisal Films, Aegis Film Fund, Element Pictures, Crescendo Productions, EDS Pictures, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Fionnula Flanagan as Eileen Boyle
- Gary Lydon as Garda Inspector Gerry Stanton
Crew
- John Michael McDonagh - Director
- John Michael McDonagh - Writer
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