The Guard
“The FBI are about to discover that things work a little differently around here.”
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.
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Cast
21 people
Brendan Gleeson
Sergeant Gerry Boyle
Known for
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Edge of Tomorrow
Don Cheadle
FBI agent Wendell Everett
Known for
Iron Man 3
Crash
Liam Cunningham
Francis Sheehy
Known for
Game of Thrones
3 Body Problem
Mark Strong
Clive Cornell
Known for
Shazam!
1917
Katarina Čas
Gabriela McBride
Known for
The Wolf of Wall Street
Terminal
David Wilmot
Liam O'Leary
Known for
The Alienist
Station Eleven
Rory Keenan
Garda Aidan McBride
Known for
Peaky Blinders
The Regime
Laurence Kinlan
Photographer
Known for
Ned Kelly
Breakfast on Pluto
Dominique McElligott
Aoife O'Carroll
Known for
The Boys
Moon
Sarah Greene
Sinead Mulligan
Known for
Penny Dreadful
Normal People
Fionnula Flanagan
Eileen Boyle
Known for
The Others
Yes Man
Gary Lydon
Garda Inspector Gerry Stanton
Known for
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Hallow
John Michael McDonagh Director · Calexico Composer Joey Burns Composer
Worldwide gross $20M · Budget $6M · United States release July 29, 2011
Box office
Budget
$6,000,000
Worldwide gross
$19,560,274
Gross vs. budget
3.3×
Production
Prescience
Production
UK Film Council
Production
Reprisal Films
Production
Aegis Film Fund
Production
Element Pictures
Production
Crescendo Productions
Production
EDS Pictures
Production
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
Production
Sony Pictures Classics
Studio
Irish Film Board
Production
Ireland · United Kingdom · United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Irish
Release dates
Ireland · July 7, 2011
Theatrical
United States · July 29, 2011
Theatrical
Australia
August 25, 2011 · Theatrical
Austria
September 23, 2011 · Theatrical
Belgium
September 21, 2011 · Theatrical
France
November 2, 2011 · Theatrical
Germany
September 22, 2011 · Theatrical
Greece
September 1, 2011 · Theatrical
Hungary
October 27, 2011 · Theatrical
Italy
October 21, 2011 · Theatrical
Netherlands
September 22, 2011 · Theatrical
March 7, 2012 · Physical · DVD, Blu ray
April 26, 2014 · TV · Nederland 3
Portugal
May 16, 2013 · Theatrical
Russia
December 1, 2011 · Theatrical
Spain
July 20, 2012 · Theatrical
Sweden
November 25, 2011 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
August 19, 2011 · Theatrical
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