The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop comedy film that become the  the most successful independent Irish film of all time when it overtook a film heavily influenced by what novel?
The Scorching Wind
The Guard (2011 film)
The Guard is a 2011 Irish buddy cop comedy film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.
 It 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), which previously held this status.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922–1923).
 Written by long-time Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, this drama tells the fictional story of two County Cork brothers, Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) and Teddy O'Donovan (Pádraic Delaney), who join the Irish Republican Army to fight for Irish independence from the United Kingdom.
 The film takes its title from the Robert Dwyer Joyce's "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", a song set during the 1798 rebellion in Ireland and featured early in the film.
 The film is heavily influenced by Walter Macken's 1964 novel "The Scorching Wind".
Alien Nation (film)
Alien Nation is a 1988 American buddy cop neo-noir science fiction action film directed by Graham Baker.
 The ensemble cast features James Caan, Mandy Patinkin and Terence Stamp.
 The film depicts the assimilation of the "Newcomers", an alien race settling in Los Angeles, much to the initial dismay of the local population.
 The plot integrates the neo-noir and buddy cop film genres with a science fiction theme, centering on a union between a veteran police investigator (Caan) and an extraterrestrial (Patinkin); the first Newcomer detective.
 The duo probe a criminal underworld attempting to solve a homicide. Blue Streak (film)
Blue Streak is a 1999 American buddy cop comedy film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene, Nicole Ari Parker and William Forsythe.
 It is a remake of the 1965 British film "The Big Job".
 The film was shot on location in California.
 The prime shooting spot was Sony Pictures Studios which is located in Culver City, California. Juanita Wilson
Juanita Wilson is an Irish director and writer from Dublin.
 Her short film "The Door" received an Irish Film and Television Award (IFTA) in 2009 and an Academy Award nomination in 2010.
 Her debut feature film "As If I Am Not There" received the 2011 Irish Film and Television Award for best film, best script, and best director. Buddy cop film
A buddy cop film is a film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
 The two are normally cops, but some films, such as "48 Hrs.
" (a cop and a con), that are not about two cops may still be referred to as buddy cop films.
 It is a subgenre of buddy films. Dragnet (1987 film)
Dragnet is a 1987 American buddy cop comedy film written and directed by Tom Mankiewicz in his directorial debut.
 Starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, the film is based on the television crime drama of the same name.
 The screenplay, both a parody of and homage to the long-running television series, was written by Dan Aykroyd and Alan Zweibel.
 The original music score is by Ira Newborn. Osmosis Jones
Osmosis Jones is a 2001 American live-action/animated buddy cop comedy film with animated scenes directed by Tom Sito and Piet Kroon and live-action scenes directed by the Farrelly brothers.
 The film centers on Frank Detorre, a slovenly zookeeper; the live-action scenes are set outside Frank's body, while the animated scenes are set inside his body, which is portrayed as a city inhabited by anthropomorphic microorganisms. White blood cell cop Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones and cold pill Drix must prevent deadly virus Thrax from killing Frank within forty-eight hours. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Stop!
 Or My Mom Will Shoot is a 1992 American buddy cop comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode.
 The film stars Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty.
 The film was released in the United States on February 21, 1992. Starsky &amp; Hutch (film)
Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 American crime-action buddy cop comedy film directed by Todd Phillips.
 The film stars Ben Stiller as David Starsky and Owen Wilson as Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and is a film adaptation of the original television series of the same name from the 1970s.