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30-516: John Michael McDonagh (born 1967) is a British-Irish filmmaker. He wrote and directed The Guard (2011) and Calvary (2014), with the former earning him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay . John Michael McDonagh was born to Irish parents in the Camberwell area of London in 1967. His mother was a part-time housekeeper from Killeenduff , whille his father was

60-530: A Derringer (from the IRA cache) and kills O'Leary, then calls Everett to tell him that the Cork lead is a decoy arranged by corrupt officers. Boyle drives to the local dock where Sheehy's vessel is berthed and Sheehy's men are unloading the cocaine. Everett arrives and Boyle hands him an automatic rifle and persuades him to provide covering fire as he moves to arrest Sheehy and Cornell. Boyle kills Cornell before leaping onto

90-429: A cartoon cat. A subgenre of the buddy cop film is the buddy cop-dog movie , which teams a cop with a dog , but uses the same element of unlikely partnership to create comedic hijinks, such as Turner & Hooch , Top Dog and K-9 . Akira Kurosawa 's 1949 Japanese film Stray Dog , starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura , is considered a precursor to the buddy cop film genre. Other early pioneers of

120-533: A construction worker from Lettermullen . He holds both British and Irish citizenship, referring to himself as "London Irish" because he does not "feel particularly British [or] particularly Irish". His younger brother Martin is a playwright and filmmaker. He and his brother were raised in Camberwell while spending summers in Killeenduff. They both dropped out of secondary school and were unemployed. When he

150-531: A filmmaker when he wrote and directed The Guard (2011), making his feature-length directorial debut at the age of 44. The film received critical acclaim, becoming the most financially successful independent Irish film of all time. Among several honours, McDonagh was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay . His next film, Calvary (2014), received acclaim. His next two films, War on Everyone (2016) and The Forgiven (2021), received mixed reviews. In 2014, McDonagh spoke of plans to end

180-455: A murder, with evidence apparently pointing to an occult serial killer. Shortly after, Boyle attends a briefing by an American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Wendell Everett, sent to liaise with the Garda in hunting four Irish drug traffickers led by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, who is believed to be awaiting a massive seaborne delivery of cocaine from Jamaica . Boyle recognises one of

210-438: A pun on the phrase "One's a..." that could be used to describe the contrasts between the two characters in a typical film. The cliché was satirized in the film Last Action Hero . While the movie in itself was a buddy cop film (i.e. pairing a fictional cop with a real world boy), the film's police department obligatorily assigned all cops a conflicting buddy to work with, even to the extreme of one officer being partnered with

240-418: A strong Irish flavor and an eminently likable Brendan Gleeson in the main role." On Metacritic , the film has a score of 78 out of 100, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In The Hollywood Reporter , Todd McCarthy wrote: "Scabrous, profane, violent, verbally adroit and very often hilarious, this twisted and exceptionally accomplished variation on the buddy-cop format

270-440: Is a 2011 buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh , starring Brendan Gleeson , Don Cheadle , Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham . The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success. Both Gleeson and Cheadle received acclaim for their performances, with Gleeson receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination. McDonagh was in turn nominated for a BAFTA Award for his writing achievement. It

300-409: Is capped by a protean performance by Brendan Gleeson a defiantly iconoclastic West of Ireland policeman." Vanity Fair ' s John Lopez wrote: "So far, The Guard has been the most thoroughly enjoyable film experience at Sundance, a nice change of pace from the anomie, alienated angst and melancholy of other films." In Screen International , David D'Arcy wrote: "As a director, McDonagh avoids

330-450: Is gay and that she married him to obtain an Irish visa as well as to make McBride "look respectable". Meeting Everett at a local pub , Boyle notices a closed-circuit television camera and remembers that the original suspect in the murder case claimed to be frequenting it at the time of the killing. Looking over the footage from the time of the murder, they see that the suspect's alibi is valid – and Everett also spots Sheehy and Cornell at

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360-858: Is known for his screenplay for the 2003 film Ned Kelly and as writer/director of the 2000 film The Second Death . Cinematographer Larry Smith is known for his work on Eyes Wide Shut and production designer John-Paul Kelly for his work on Venus . Principal filming began on 29 October 2009, in Lettermore County Galway . Filming took place over a six-week period in Connemara , Lettermore, Lettermullan , Spiddal , and Barna with some scenes for filming in Wicklow and Dublin. Companies involved were Reprisal Films and Element Pictures in association with Prescience, Aegis Film Fund, UK Film Council and Crescendo Productions, with

390-422: Is later revealed that Boyle kept a few of the guns.) Shortly after having her last wish to hear a live pub band fulfilled, Boyle's mother kills herself by overdosing on pills. Meeting at the bar again, Everett tells Boyle that Garda sources indicate Sheehy's shipment will be coming into County Cork and that he is leaving to investigate. Returning home, Boyle is confronted in his living room by O'Leary. Boyle pulls

420-472: Is normally that one is "wilder" than the other: a hot-tempered iconoclast is paired with a more even-tempered partner. Often the "wilder" partner is the younger of the two, with the even-tempered partner having more patience and experience. These films sometimes also contain a variation on the good cop/bad cop motif , in which one partner is kinder and law-abiding, while the other is a streetwise, "old school" police officer who tends to break (or at least bend)

450-631: Is the most successful independent Irish film of all time in terms of Irish box-office receipts, overtaking The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an officer of the Garda Síochána (police) in the Connemara district in the west of Ireland. He is crass and confrontational, regularly indulging in drugs and alcohol even while on duty. He is also shown to have a softer side, showing concern for his ailing mother, Eileen. Boyle and his new subordinate, Aidan McBride, investigate

480-416: Is the triumphant directorial debut of Ned Kelly screenwriter (and brother of In Bruges director Martin ), John Michael McDonagh... This confident film knows full well how funny it is, daring to provoke with unfettered 'unPCness' a-plenty." Buddy cop Frequently, although not always, the two heroes are of different ethnicity or cultures. However, regardless of ethnicity, the central difference

510-541: The "trilogy" he started with The Guard and Calvary , reteaming him with star Brendan Gleeson . The film, titled The Lame Shall Enter First , will follow a paraplegic ex-policeman in London who has developed a hatred for able-bodied people and gets caught up in a new investigation after one of his friends is murdered. It is intended to be an amalgamation of themes and tones present in the first two films. He has also mentioned numerous other forthcoming projects such as Fear Is

540-781: The Rider , a thriller starring Abbey Lee and Christopher Abbott ; an adaptation of Percival Everett 's novel Assumption ; The Bonnot Gang , a period gangster film about the titular French anarchist gang ; and Chaos Inc , a series about a Buddhist private investigator based in Las Vegas . McDonagh frequently works with the same actors, including Gleeson, Liam Cunningham , David Wilmot , Marie-Josée Croze , and Caleb Landry Jones . He has also frequently worked with cinematographer Larry Smith and composer Lorne Balfe . McDonagh has been married to Australian film producer Elizabeth Eves since 2003. The Guard (2011 film) The Guard

570-502: The boat to deal with Sheehy. Everett's gunfire sets the boat alight. Boyle shoots Sheehy and leaves him for dead in the main cabin as the boat explodes. The next day, Everett looks out on the water where the boat sank, believing Boyle to be dead. Eugene, standing nearby, mentions that Boyle was a good swimmer, having placed fourth at the 1988 Summer Olympics , a claim that Everett had dismissed. A young photographer comments that it would be easy enough to look it up to check whether or not it

600-525: The brothers had recently argued over cheese in the fridge, quipping, "If we're arguing about that, we're probably not going to work together on a film!" McDonagh adapted Robert Drewe 's novel Our Sunshine (1991) into the screenplay for the film Ned Kelly (2003). Directed by Gregor Jordan , the film received mixed reviews and was not the resulting film McDonagh had hoped to see; he later revealed that he did not get along with Jordan, whom he called "a pretty humourless man". McDonagh had his breakthrough as

630-568: The buddy cop film genre are the 1967 American film In the Heat of the Night and 1974's Freebie and the Bean . The genre was later popularized by the 1982 film 48 Hrs. , starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte , then also the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop along with its 1987 sequel Beverly Hills Cop II , all three are among the most successful buddy cop films. The genre was further popularized by

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660-509: The grand gesture and focuses on his web of odd characters that call to mind the comedies of Preston Sturges ." Justin Chang of Variety wrote: "The film making crackles with energy, from Chris Gill's crisp editing and Calexico's ever-inventive score to d.p. Larry Smith's dynamic camerawork, alternating between bright, almost candy-coloured interiors and shots of Galway's grey, rugged landscape." In The Times , Wendy Ide wrote: "Without doubt

690-489: The men in Everett's presentation as the victim of the murder he and McBride had been investigating. McBride pulls over a car driven by Sheehy and his lieutenants Clive Cornell and Liam O'Leary and is shot dead. McBride's wife, Gabriela, reports McBride's disappearance to Boyle, who promises to look into it. The strait-laced Everett suggests that he and the unorthodox Boyle team up to track down Sheehy and his men. Everett makes

720-801: The participation of the Irish Film Board . International sales were handled by Metropolis Films and the film was released by Element Pictures Distribution in Ireland, Optimum Releasing in the United Kingdom, Sony Pictures Classics in the United States and Alliance Films in Canada. The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 7.65/10 based on 134 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "A violent, crackerjack comedy with

750-523: The pub. Cornell delivers a payoff to the Garda inspectors to keep them off the case but Sheehy believes that Boyle will not be so easily swayed, after he meets with Boyle to half-heartedly attempt blackmail and then to offer a bribe, which is refused. Tipped off by a young boy named Eugene, Boyle discovers a cache of weapons hidden in the bog by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and says he will arrange its return. (It

780-457: The rounds, encountering Irish-speaking residents who pretend not to understand English rather than deal with an outsider. Boyle has a sexual encounter with a pair of sex workers at a hotel in town. On his way back from the hotel, Boyle spots McBride's Garda car at a "suicide hotspot" along the coast but does not believe that McBride killed himself. McBride's wife, Gabriela, an immigrant from Croatia , reports him missing and tells Boyle that McBride

810-416: The rules. Another frequent plot device of this genre is placing one of the partners in an unfamiliar setting (like a different city or foreign country) or role (like requiring police field work of a non-cop, rookie, or office-bound "desk jockey"). In these cases, they are usually guided by the other partner. In his review of Rush Hour , Roger Ebert coined the term "Wunza Movie" to describe this subgenre,

840-432: The strongest debut film of the year so far, this sly, witty and provocative Irish black comedy is an exceptionally funny crowd-pleaser and a playful cine-literate exercise, laced with arcane movie references... Gleeson must be thanking whatever guardian angel oversees his career for the brothers McDonagh giving him two of his meatiest roles yet." Georgie Hobbs of Little White Lies wrote: "Unexpectedly hilarious, The Guard

870-528: Was 26 years old, his parents moved back to Lettermullen, which allowed him to regularly travel to nearby Galway . McDonagh initially pursued a career as a novelist but decided to try screenwriting after his first five books, which he later described as "really bad", were rejected by publishers. He made his first foray by writing and directing the short film The Second Death (2000), on which his brother served as an executive producer; they have not worked together since. When asked why in 2011, McDonagh said that

900-534: Was true. Everett remembers Boyle's remark that Sheehy's backers would not forget Boyle's actions and that Boyle would have to disappear were he to continue living, and smiles. Film producers include Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, with executive producers Paul Brett, Don Cheadle , Martin McDonagh (brother of John Michael), David Nash, Ralph Kamp, Lenore Zerman and associate producer Elizabeth Eves . Director John Michael McDonagh

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