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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
1998 · Directed by Guy Ritchie · 105 min · Comedy · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 14 frames
Tagline
A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.
Plot
Long-time friends and small-time London criminals Eddie, Tom, Soap, and Bacon put together £100,000 so that Eddie, a card sharp, can participate in one of "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale's high-stakes three-card brag games. The game, however, is rigged; and not only does Eddie lose his money, he winds up owing £500,000 to Harry, with only a week's grace before payment is due. Harry sends his debt collector Big Chris (and his son Little Chris) to Eddie's father JD, since Harry's true intention is to acquire JD's bar in payment of the debt.
Also interested in two expensive antique Holland & Holland shotguns up for auction, Harry gets his enforcer Barry "the Baptist" to hire two Scouser thieves, Gary and Dean, to steal them from an insolvent lord. Unfortunately, they end up selling the guns to Nick "the Greek", a local fence, instead of bringing them to Harry; Barry threatens them into retrieving the guns.
Meanwhile, Eddie, desperate to find a way to get the money needed to pay back Harry, overhears his neighbours- a gang of robbers led by the brutal 'Dog'- planning a heist on a nearby cannabis patch run by a eloquent student named Winston and his friends, aiming to steal their cannabis crop and money. Informing Tom, Soap and Bacon of this, the four decide to surprise Dog and his crew after they rob the cannabis growers and make off with the goods themselves. Tom goes to Nick the Greek to purchase firearms in preparation for the job, and- with neither man aware of their true value- buys the pair of shotguns Harry is after.
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Crew
- Written by: Guy Ritchie
- Cinematography: Tim Maurice-Jones
- Edited by: Niven Howie
- Music: David A. Hughes, John Murphy
- Production design: Iain Andrews, Eve Mavrakis
- Produced by: Matthew Vaughn
Cast
- Vinnie Jones as Big Chris
- Jason Flemyng as Tom
- Dexter Fletcher as Soap
- Nick Moran as Eddy
- Jason Statham as Bacon
- Steven Mackintosh as Winston
- Nicholas Rowe as J
- Nick Marcq as Charles
- Charles Forbes as Willie
- Lenny McLean as Barry the Baptist
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: The Steve Tisch Company, Handmade Films, Marv
- Budget: $1,350,000
- Box office: $28,356,188
- Themes: ambush, joint, alcohol, shotgun, tea, machismo, rifle, cocktail, pot smoking, marijuana
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