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The Guard

The Guard

The FBI are about to discover that things work a little differently around here.

2011•1h 36m•7.0/10
ActionComedyThrillerCrime

Ratings

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7.0/10(1K)

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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Production

Prescience, UK Film Council, Reprisal Films, Aegis Film Fund, Element Pictures, Crescendo Productions, EDS Pictures, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

Sergeant Gerry Boyle

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

FBI agent Wendell Everett

Liam Cunningham

Liam Cunningham

Francis Sheehy

Mark Strong

Mark Strong

Clive Cornell

Katarina Čas

Katarina Čas

Gabriela McBride

David Wilmot

David Wilmot

Liam O'Leary

Rory Keenan

Rory Keenan

Garda Aidan McBride

Laurence Kinlan

Laurence Kinlan

Photographer

Dominique McElligott

Dominique McElligott

Aoife O'Carroll

Sarah Greene

Sarah Greene

Sinead Mulligan

Fionnula Flanagan

Fionnula Flanagan

Eileen Boyle

Gary Lydon

Gary Lydon

Garda Inspector Gerry Stanton

Mícheál Óg Lane

Mícheál Óg Lane

Eugene Moloney

Mark O'Halloran

Mark O'Halloran

Garda No. 1

David Pearse

David Pearse

Bartley

Owen Sharpe

Owen Sharpe

Billy Devaney

Wale Ojo

Wale Ojo

Doctor Oleyuwo

Darren Healy

Darren Healy

Jimmy Moody

Conor Moloney

Conor Moloney

Detective

Laura Hitchings

Laura Hitchings

Female Garda

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