Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.

Director:

Guy Ritchie

Writer:

Guy Ritchie

Stars:

Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran

Top 250 #136 | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 13 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Flemyng	...	Tom
Dexter Fletcher	...	Soap
Nick Moran	...	Eddy
Jason Statham	...	Bacon
Steven Mackintosh	...	Winston
Nicholas Rowe	...	J
Nick Marcq	...	Charles
Charles Forbes	...	Willie (as Charlie Forbes)
Vinnie Jones	...	Big Chris
Lenny McLean	...	Barry The Baptist
Peter McNicholl	...	Little Chris
P.H. Moriarty	...	Hatchet Harry
Frank Harper	...	Dog
Steve Sweeney	...	Plank
Huggy Leaver	...	Paul

Storyline

Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

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Plot Keywords:

hatchet | shotgun | antique | debt | gang | 

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Taglines:

They lost half a million at cards but they've still got a few tricks up their sleeve

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Genres:

Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality and drug content

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 1999 (USA)

Also Known As:

Juegos, trampas y dos armas humeantes

Filming Locations:

Bethnal Green Town Hall, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

£960,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$143,321 (USA) (5 March 1999)

Gross:

$3,650,677 (USA) (21 May 1999)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Summit Entertainment, Steve Tisch Company, The, SKA Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min 120 min (director's cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The scene where Nick the Greek breaks the glass in the coffee table was not in the original script. It was, in fact, an accident that happened during filming and was written in by Guy Ritchie as an afterthought.

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Goofs

Just before Plank gets shot in the neck with the air rifle, we see him looking to his right with the left side of his neck exposed. But when he is shot, the close-up shows him holding the right side of his neck.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Bacon: Right. Let's sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don't, because if you can't see value here today, you're not up here shopping. You're up here shoplifting. You see these goods? Never seen daylight, moonlight, Israelite. Fanny by the gaslight. Take a bag, c'mon take a bag. I took a bag home last night. Cost me a lot more than ten pound, I can tell you. Anyone like jewelry? Look at that one there. Handmade in Italy, ...
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Connections

Referenced in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Oh Girl"
Words and Music by Mauro Pawlowski
Produced by David Sardy
Engineered by Peter Close
Recorded at Galaxy Studios (Mol, B)
Notes and beats put on tape by Evil Superstars
© 1998 Paradox Record
Copyright control Evil Superstars

User Reviews

Brilliant script, brilliant cinematography, great acting and soundtrack

Best comedy in years, friend turned me on to this hilarious comedy of errors and glad she did. The film is damn near flawless, forces you to pay attention to the twists and turns through it's witty dialogue. Wonderfully photographed with brilliant camerawork but not overdone. Worth several sittings and we could learn alot in Hollywood from this one....