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The Guard (2011) 7.3
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7.3/10 from 60,233 users
Metascore: 78/100
Reviews: 130 user | 257 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an up-tight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring. Director:John Michael McDonaghWriter:John Michael McDonagh |
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door. Written by Element Pictures
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The FBI are about to discover that things work a little different around here.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for pervasive language, some violence, drug material and sexual content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
IrelandRelease Date:
7 July 2011 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
El irlandés See more »Box Office
Budget:
$6,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$76,834 (USA) (29 July 2011)Gross:
$5,359,774 (USA) (3 February 2012)Company Credits
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Sergeant Gerry Boyle: So what?
Garda Aidan McBride: Maybe it's about the murder. Maybe he's got a psychological profile on the killer or something.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's drug smuggling. Either that or they've had another fuckin' sighting of Whitey Bulger at some fuckin' museum.
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Written by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair
Performed by Chet Baker
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Trivia
Boyle states that he was 4th in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, in 1500m freestyle swimming. In the end of the movie Everett says that it's not true, and the photographer kid replies: 'It's easy to look up'. In the 1988 Olympics the 4th place in this event was won by an American named Matt Cetlinski. The other contestants mentioned were real: two Germans won the 2nd and 3rd place (Stefan Pfeiffer and Uwe Dassler respectively), while the 1st place was won by the Soviet Vladimir Salnikov. See more »Goofs
(00:03:30) When Sergeant Gerry Boyle is first meeting Garda Aidan McBride at the murder scene, he stops his police car while the windshield wipers are up. In the immediate next shoot they are down. See more »Quotes
Garda Aidan McBride: You got a call from Galway. You're to head in tonight to attend a briefing from a fella who's over from the FBI. Special Agent Wendell Everett.Sergeant Gerry Boyle: So what?
Garda Aidan McBride: Maybe it's about the murder. Maybe he's got a psychological profile on the killer or something.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's drug smuggling. Either that or they've had another fuckin' sighting of Whitey Bulger at some fuckin' museum.
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Everything Happens To MeWritten by Matt Dennis and Tom Adair
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Michael McDonagh is the brother of one of the funniest writers in the world just now. Like him, he is a foul mouthed upstart with a unique ability to investigate Irishness with tremendous energy and vividness.
I was lucky enough to attend the premiere in Edinburgh this week and enjoyed what is another great addition to the McDonagh canon of work.
Inevitably it has to be compared to the superior In Bruges but this is no lightweight cast off. Particularly when it one again focuses on a heavyweight performance by Irish heavyweight, Brendan Gleeson. In "In Bruges" Gleeson had to battle for compliments against Colin Farrell who has never performed better and had most of the best lines. Not here. This is all Gleeson, ably abetted by Don Cheadle as the Black FBI agent drafted in on the back of a glittering career to track down a bunch of slightly bungling drug runners in sleepy old Conemarra - Gleeson's patch.
Gleeson and Cheadle spar well and develop a likable relationship, despite this it's not the heart of the movie; that belongs, again, to Gleeson in a tour de force performance.
Cheadle's good and is a great foil. The baddies are less well developed characters and, for my taste, were slightly too caricaturised.
It's not a life changing film but it has to be seen for Gleeson's complete mastery of McDonagh's marvellous script.