Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. It follows a heist involving a confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three-card brag, prompting him to pay off his debts by enlisting his friends to help him rob a small-time gang operating out of the apartment next door. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, and Sting.
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 they wind up owing £500,000 to Harry, to be paid within a week. Harry sends his debt collector Big Chris to Eddie's father JD, since Harry's true intention is to acquire JD's bar in payment of the debt.
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| author | Guy Ritchie Peter Cattaneo |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | London |
| director | Guy Ritchie |
| editor | Niven Howie |
| events | gambling |
| genre | comedy crime thriller |
| keywords | arrest battersea bridge bren gun bren light machine gun cannabis card sharp debt collector duffel bag full of money fence game gang member holland & holland kill load parking enforcement officer plan return home river river thames set up shotgun survive than the traffic warden |
| musicBy | David Hughes |
| producer | Matthew Vaughn |
| publisher | Gramercy Pictures PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Summit Entertainment Variety |
| theme | black comedy comedy thriller crime comedy gangster heist hood independent neo-noir |