The Guard

Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges) 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, the Ocean’s trilogy) to his door. However, when his enthusiastic new partner disappears, his favourite hooker attempts to blackmail him and the drug-traffickers themselves try to buy him off, Sergeant Boyle finally realises that he needs to take matters into his own hands.

Special Features:

• Director’s Commentary with Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle
• Behind the scenes featurette  
• Outtakes
• Deleted and extended scenes
• Trailer

Also includes Short Film:

The Second Death

The Second Death is a short film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. It was shot in Connemara in 2000. It shares many of its actors with The Guard, and features Inspector Gerry Stanton in an earlier incarnation. This character also served as a prototype for Sergeant Gerry Boyle.