

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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7.0/10
1,480 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $6M
- Box office
- $19.6M
- Language
- Irish
- prostitute
- drug smuggling
- blackmail
- rural area
- ireland
- buddy cop
- cops
- irish
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Behind the camera
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Produced in
Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR29 Jul 2011
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1519 Aug 2011
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA15+25 Aug 2011
AustriaAT
- Theatrical23 Sept 2011
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1221 Sept 2011
FranceFR
- Theatrical2 Nov 2011
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1622 Sept 2011
GreeceGR
- Theatrical161 Sept 2011
HungaryHU
- Theatrical27 Oct 2011
IrelandIE
- Theatrical15A7 Jul 2011
ItalyIT
- Theatrical21 Oct 2011
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1222 Sept 2011
- Physical12DVD, Blu ray7 Mar 2012
- TV12Nederland 326 Apr 2014
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The Guard was released on 7 July 2011.
Audience reviews
2- R5/10
Reno
11/23/2016
**An ordinary cop, enjoying his single life, gets into a real cop business!** I won't say it is an overrated film, but it simply did not work for me. The same director who had made 'Calvary' directed this one as well with Brendon Gleeson in the lead, but that was an earlier project to this one. I loved that film, not this one, though I consider it an average, because I did not find it bad. The theme was very famil…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/30/2024
I couldn't help but wonder just how much acting Brendan Gleeson was actually doing here! He really does look like he's enjoying himself as the irreverent Garda officer "Boyle" whose sleepy Irish community finds itself embroiled in an FBI investigation led by "Everett" (Don Cheadle) into a smuggling racket that could involve $500m worth of cocaine. It's fair to say that "Boyle" does things very much his own way, doesn…
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