Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Directed by

Guy Ritchie

Genre

heist film, crime comedy film, black comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

R

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 7,260 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young card sharp gets cheated out of a huge sum of money by a crime lord. He and his friends plan to rob a gang next door to pay off the debt.

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What happens

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 crime comedy 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 (in his film debut), Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, and Sting. The film brought Ritchie international acclaim and introduced Statham (a former diver) and Jones (a former footballer) to worldwide audiences in their feature film debuts. It was also a commercial success, grossing over $28 million at the box office against a $1.35 million budget. A television spin-off called Lock, Stock... followed in 2000, running for seven episodes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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