Taglines: They lost half a million at cards but they’ve still got a few tricks up their sleeve.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie 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.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Matthew Vaughn and starring an ensemble cast featuring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, and Sting.
The story is a heist film involving a self-confident 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 small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
The film brought Ritchie international acclaim and introduced actors Jones, a former Wales international footballer, and Statham, a former diver, to worldwide audiences. Based on a $1.35 million budget, the film had a box office gross of over $28 million, making it a commercial success. A television series, Lock, Stock…, followed in 2000, running for seven episodes including the pilot.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Vinnie Jones, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Sting, P.H. Moriarty, Frank Harper, Steve Sweeney
Screenplay by: Guy Ritchie
Production Design by: Iain Andrews, Eve Mavrakis
Cinematography by: Tim Maurice-Jones
Film Editing by: Niven Howie
Costume Design by: Stephanie Collie
Set Decoration by: Jacalyn Hyman
Music by: David A. Hughes, John Murphy
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexuality and drug content.
Distributed by: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release Date: August 28, 1998
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