Brendan Gleeson is funny in the way people are funny in real life, but then you try to explain to someone how that person is so funny and you say things they've said, but the person you're talking to just doesn't get it because you had to be there.
The Guard
The FBI are about to discover that things work a little differently around here.
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
7/7/2011Runtime
96 minsOverview
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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A scrappy Irish small-town cop and by-the-book FBI agent clash and bond while taking on drug smugglers, delivering laughs and edge in equal measure. The charm lies in watching two incompatible outsiders find common ground while the stakes quietly escalate.
Mood
BittersweetPlayfulDefiant
Themes
FriendshipClassCorruptionCrime
Tone
Ironic
Pacing
Brisk
Look
NaturalisticHandheld
Structure
Two-hander
Heads up
Graphic violence
Brendan Gleeson
Sergeant Gerry Boyle
Don Cheadle
FBI agent Wendell Everett
Liam Cunningham
Francis Sheehy
Mark Strong
Clive Cornell
Katarina Čas
Gabriela McBride
David Wilmot
Liam O'Leary
Rory Keenan
Garda Aidan McBride
Laurence Kinlan
Photographer
Dominique McElligott
Aoife O'Carroll
Sarah Greene
Sinead Mulligan
Fionnula Flanagan
Eileen Boyle
Gary Lydon
Garda Inspector Gerry Stanton
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