Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a selfconfident young card sharp who loses 500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag. To pay off his debts, he and his friends decide to rob a smalltime gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. The film brought Guy Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Vinnie Jones, a former Wales international footballer, and Jason Statham, a former diver, to worldwide audiences. Based on a 1.35 million budget, the film had a box office gross of 28.3 million, making it a commercial success.
Longtime friends and smalltime criminals Eddy, Tom, Soap and Bacon put together 100,000 so that Eddy, a genius card shark, can buy into one of Hatchet Harry Lonsdales weekly highstakes three card brag games. The game is rigged however, and the friends end up massively indebted to Harry, who fully expects them not to be able to come up with the money before the deadline he gives them. He has his sights set on Eddys fathers bar as repayment, and sets his debt collector Big Chris who is often accompanied by his beloved son, Little Chris to work in order to ensure that some form of payment is coming up.Harry also has his sights set on a couple of antique shotguns up for auction, and gets his enforcer Barry the Baptist to hire a couple of thieves, Gary and Dean, to steal them from a private home. The two turn out to be highly incompetent and unwittingly sell the shotguns to Nick the Greek, a local fence. After learning this, an enraged Barry threatens the two into getting the guns back. ........
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