GUARD - BLU-2011-BRENDAN GLEESON

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• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The Guard is a comedic fish-out-of-water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption. Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humour. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humourless FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) assigned to the case.
• Cast: Christopher Kilmartin, Mark O'Halloran, Gary Lydon, Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Rory Keenan, Laurence Kinlan, Mícheál Óg Lane, Declan Mannlen, Ronan Collins, Fionnula Flanagan, Conor Moloney, Dominique McElligott, Sarah Greene, Katarina Cas, Wale Ojo, Dermot Healy, Sharon Kearney, John Patrick Beirne, Darren Healy, Liam Cunningham, Owen Sharpe, Paraic Nialand, David Pearse, Mary Corcoran, Colm Gannon, Johnny McDonagh, Dominick Hewitt, Giedrius Nagys, Liam O'Conghaile, Eamonn Olwill, Gary Robinson, Yuyang Sheilds, Pat Shortt, Gay McKeon, Laura Hitchings, David Wilmot, Mark Strong, John Michael McDonagh, Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Larry Smith, Chris Gill, Calexico
• Director: John Michael McDonagh
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Alliance Films
• Media Format: Movie