Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) 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 (Don Cheadle) to his door.
Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (Ned Kelly), this is an Irish-set comedy thriller featuring Brendan Gleeson (Troy, Gangs of New York, Mission Impossible II, In Bruges), and Don Cheadle (Crash, Hotel Rwanda, Traitor).
The film also stars Mark Strong, (Body of Lies, RocknRolla, Sunshine), Liam Cunningham (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Harry Brown, Dog Soldiers), Fionnuala Flanagan (The Others, Yes Man, Waking Ned, Devine), David Wilmot (I Went Down, Six Shooter, Intermission), Rory Keenan (Reign of Fire, Intermission, Ella Enchanted), Pat Shortt (Garage, Man About Dog, Wild About Harry), and newcomer Katarina Cas (Reality, Friday Night).
The Guard is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, executive-produced by Martin McDonagh, Don Cheadle, Lenore Zerman, Tim Smith, Paul Brett, Ralph Kamp and David Nash and associate produced by Elizabeth Eves. Key crew include DoP Larry Smith (Bronson, Eyes Wide Shut), production designer John-Paul Kelly (Venus, Enduring Love), costume designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Brideshead Revisted) and editor Chris Gill (Centurion, 28 Days Later).
The Guard is a Reprisal Films and Element Pictures production in association with Prescience, Aegis Film Fund, UK Film Council and Crescendo Productions and with the participation of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board. International sales are being handled by Metropolis Films and the film will be released by Optimum Releasing in the United Kingdom and Element Pictures Distribution in Ireland.
For further information, contact: Graham Smith or Lawrence Atkinson at DDA.
+44 20 7932 9800 graham.smith@ddapr.com