THE GUARD
synopsis
Set on the west coast of Ireland, Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door. But although Boyle seems more interested in mocking and undermining Everett than in actively working to solve the case, he finds that circumstances keep pulling him back into the thick of it. First his tiresomely enthusiastic new partner disappears, then his favourite hooker attempts to blackmail him into turning a blind eye, and finally the drug-traffickers themselves try to buy him off as they have every other member of the local police force.
international title: | The Guard |
original title: | The Guard |
country: | Ireland, United Kingdom |
sales agent: | Metropolis International Sales |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | John Michael McDonagh |
film run: | 96' |
release date: | IE 07/07/2011, UK 19/08/2011, GR 01/09/2011, BE 21/09/2011, DE 22/09/2011, MT 19/10/2011, NL 20/10/2011, FI 21/10/2011, IT 21/10/2011, HU 27/10/2011, SE 25/11/2011, FR 21/12/2011, ES 20/07/2012 |
screenplay: | John Michael McDonagh |
cast: | Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle |
cinematography by: | Larry Smith |
film editing: | Chris Gill |
art director: | JP Kelly |
costumes designer: | Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh |
music: | Calexico |
producer: | Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez-Marengo |
production: | Element Pictures, Reprisal Films |
backing: | IFB, UK Film Council, Prescience, Aegis, Screen Scene |
distributor: | StudioCanal, Starway Film Distribution, SND (Société Nouvelle de Distribution) Films, A Contracorriente Films, Element Pictures, Entertainment One - eOne Films Benelux, Feelgood Entertainment, Ascot Elite Home Entertainment GmbH, Ascot Elite Entertainment Group |