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#5,765 All-time worldwide
#178 2011 releases

Movie profile

The Guard

2011 · 96 min · Prescience

Action Comedy Thriller Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $19.6M
Budget $6.0M
Gross minus budget $13.6M
ROI 3.26x

Domestic gross

$7.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$11.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where The Guard ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,765 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2011 releases #178 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2011. Primary genre #1,721 Action of 2,939 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did The Guard (2011) perform at the box office?

High confidence

The Guard (2011) earned a reported $19.6M worldwide against a reported $6.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $13.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 3.26x. In this database it currently ranks #5,765 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #178 among 2011 releases.

Worldwide gross
$19,560,274
Budget
$6,000,000
Gross minus budget
$13,560,274
ROI
3.26x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 7, 2011
Production
Prescience, UK Film Council, Reprisal Films
Countries
IE, GB, US

Related indexes

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2011, The Guard is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Comedy, Thriller title from Prescience. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $19.6M, reported production budget is $6.0M, gross-minus-budget is $13.6M, ROI is 3.26x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,765 all-time in the current chart set and #178 among 2011 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.