Title The Guard Overview Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett assigned to the case. Tagline The FBI are about to discover that things work a little differently around here. Genres Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime Keywords prostitute, blackmail, drug smuggle, rural ireland, dry humour Production Companies UK Film Council, Crescendo Productions, Element Pictures, Irish Film Board, Prescience, Reprisal Films, Aegis Film Fund Production Countries Ireland Spoken Languages Gaeilge, English Original Language en Runtime minutes 96 Release Year 2011
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 20 million USD