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The Guard (2011)

The Guard

Overview

Genre

Thriller, Comedy

Release Date

July 29, 2011 (Limited)

MPAA Rating

R

Duration

96 min.

Studio

Sony Pictures Classics

Official Site

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REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Go! Watch this movie. You'll regret if not seeing it.    Readers  Be the 1st!

Cast and Crew

Director

John Michael McDonagh

Producer

Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe

Screenwriter

John Michael McDonagh

Starring

  • Brendan Gleeson as Sergeant Gerry Boyle
  • Don Cheadle as FBI agent Wendell Everett
  • Mark Strong as Clive Cornell
  • Liam Cunningham
  • Fionnuala Flanagan
  • David Wilmot
  • Rory Keenan
  • Pat Shortt
  • Katarina Cas

Story

"The Guard" is a comedic, fish out of water tale of murder, blackmail, drug trafficking and rural police corruption, and the two cops who must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang, an unorthodox Irish policeman and a straitlaced FBI agent.

Pictures (26 photos)

Don Cheadle stars as FBI Agent Wendell Everett and Brendan Gleeson stars as Sergeant Gerry Boyle in Sony Pictures Classics' The Guard (2011)
A scene from Sony Pictures Classics' The Guard (2011)
The Guard Pictures and Stills

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REVIEWS BY CRITICS

“..McDonagh's film eschews any pretense of social reality for cinematographic fancifulness and too-clever-by-half dialogue..”
by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice]
“..a great gust of very funny fresh air. An impish and impudent black comedy that knows where it's going and how to get there..”
by Kenneth Turan [LA Times]
“..this is a very Irish, very McDonagh, very Gleeson production, with the requisite amount of cheerfully abrasive humor and mayhem..”
by Eric D. Snider [Film.com]
The Guard Reviews