The Guard
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 is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. 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 humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett assigned to the case.
Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
UK Film Council, Crescendo Productions, Element Pictures, Irish Film Board, Prescience, Reprisal Films, Aegis Film Fund
Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle, Don Cheadle as FBI agent Wendell Everett, Liam Cunningham as Francis Sheehy, Mark Strong as Clive Cornell, Katarina Cas 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, Mark O'Halloran as Garda No. 1, David Pearse as Bartley