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The Guard
Why this pick
Its magnificently inappropriate lawman, deadpan criminal banter, sudden brutality and unexpectedly sincere moral core closely match the anarchic buddy-cop energy of War on Everyone.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Terry Monroe and Bob Bolaño, two corrupt cops, return to the Albuquerque police force after being suspended for assaulting a racist coworker. Bolaño and Monroe regularly rob and extort criminals, accept bribes, and take drugs. While surveilling small time thieves, the two come to believe Jimmy Harris, a local criminal, is planning a heist. They contact one of Harris' former associates, Reggie, and coerce him into revealing information by threatening to falsely arrest him. Reggie and his friend, Irishman Pádraic Power, identify Clifford Reynard, a getaway driver, and tell them Harris' girlfriend, Jackie Hollis, used to dance at a strip club owned by Russell Birdwell. Birdwell, though suspicious, reveals Hollis' address. After bursting into Harris' house and knocking him out, they extort several expensive possessions.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Theo James
Lord James Mangan
Caleb Landry Jones
Russell Birdwell
Stephanie Sigman
Dolores Bolaño
David Wilmot
Pádraic Power
Malcolm Barrett
Reggie X
Paul Reiser
Gerry Stanton
Derrick Barry
Kimberly
Tait Fletcher
Lionel Webb