THE GUARD Official film Web Trailer

In cinemas across Ireland from July 7th 2011. THE GUARD is a comedy-thriller set on the west coast of Ireland. Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to his door.

However, despite the fact that Boyle seems more interested in mocking and undermining Everett than in actively working to solve the case, Boyle finds that circumstances keep pulling him back into the thick of it. First his tiresomely enthusiastic new partner disappears, then his favourite hooker attempts to blackmail him into turning a blind eye, and finally the drug-traffickers themselves try to buy him off as they have every other member of the local police force.

These events unwittingly offend Boyle's murky moral code. He realises that he needs to take matters into his own hands, and the only person he can trust is Everett. And so the scene is set for an explosive finale.

www.theguard.ie

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[TheRealxt]

wtf are people complaing about? look up the defintion of satire before you moan about racist steotyping.

for those too lasy to look it up "trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly"

[Stef B]

BOZO THE FUCKIN CLOWN! haha reminds me of seinfeld....

[TheIrishCanuck]

feck off with your political correct barack obama

[Reishyn]

Believe it or not it's a major plot element in the story.

[MrVoxBoss]

It's the guy who plays tom in father Ted :D

[Twinkle Dickinson]

Ah, I remember this film, it was weird.

I especially remember a REALLY CRAPPY cut-away shot of a book cover they used... it was like something from a child's backyard movie. 

[daveavalon]

Oh yeah the critics liked it, that cements it as a classic so.

[osgood fielding]

that's good because it would be over your head just as it was over your friends' heads. Critics loved it by the way.

[osgood fielding]

Thank you---these people aren't to bright are they? Satire is being used here in order to make FUN of racial stereotypes thereby attacking racial stereotypes. Why does the obvious have to be pointed out to these lunkheads?

[Trevor Collins]

Brilliant, classic & soo funny I was in tears!!! Brendan Gleesan is pukka!

Watch "In Bruges"

And feck off if you dont like this film!

[connemaraman]

Absolutely class film. Filmed a few miles from me. I can watch anything Brendan Gleesan is in. No, its not 'polically correct' but thats the charm. Gleesans character is taking the piss, having laugh and purely winding up the FBI fella. Its a comedy for fecks sake.

[Greg McGarry]

An absolute gem.

Fresh storyline not following the Hollywood conveyor belt. Hilarious...

I do fear that many of the jokes may be lost on non-Irish, particularly Americans but informed Britains will laugh hard at this. There's some banter about Brits /Irish /IRA etc in both directions and it's good to see the piss being taken on the silver screen about serious history... shows how far beyond that everyone is now.

The irreverence of Brendan Gleeson's character, the "Last of the Independents"