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      Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

      R Now Playing 1 hr. 45 min. Comedy Drama Action Crime List
      75% 67 Reviews Tomatometer 93% 250,000+ Ratings Audience Score Eddy (Nick Moran) convinces three friends to pool funds for a high-stakes poker game against local crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty). Harry cheats and Eddy loses, giving him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds or hand over his father's pub. Desperate, Eddy and his friends wait for their neighbors to rob some drug dealers, then rob the robbers in turn. After both thefts, the number of interested criminal parties increases, with the four friends in dangerously over their heads. Read More Read Less Now in Theaters Now Playing Buy Tickets

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      Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is a grimy, twisted, and funny twist on the Tarantino hip gangster formula.

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      Audience Member A cliche British gangster film that hasn't dated well, despite the cast being decent enough. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Mike K One of my favorite movies of all time. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/19/24 Full Review Dan R 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' is a film so close to my heart as it became part of the culture of my early 20s. SYNOPSIS: 'Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.' This film, and its unofficial sequel 'Snatch', became part of the language my friends and I used when together. We knew every line, every quip, every joke. They were the best of times. The film itself put Guy Ritchie on the map with its dark and grimey look at London and the criminals within it. It would go onto inspire a generation of filmmakers and make stars of it's cast. It even spawned a brilliant TV spin off. It's a classic crime caper that's full to the brim with the most colourful of characters that you'll instantly love. The mayhem is never ending, thankfully, and the action never lets up. Rude, violent and everything I wanted from a film at the time, and probably still to this day. I'm hard pressed to decide whether this or 'Snatch' is the better film, but they're both classics in my mind. A film that takes me back to some of the best times of my life. It's the best! Fact. 10/10 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/25/24 Full Review Andrew J A time-tested classic. Revisiting this movie every few years is a tradition for myself and several of my friends. To describe it in short the movie is a tornado in a bottle. Controlled chaos. With a great soundtrack to boot. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/24/24 Full Review Scarlet C This movie was absolutely amazing. It's definitely one of my favorite movies of all time!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/24 Full Review mark g One of the top movies of the 1990s. Brilliantly written and performed. So many twists that end up connecting. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/24 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Lisa Kennedy Out Magazine What ensues is an ultimatum; a clumsy caper with so many characters they'd overwhelm a lesser movie; and a tremendous amount of mayhem that, while putting our boys squarely in the line of fire, really does stay aggressively this side of funny. May 25, 2022 Full Review Rex Reed Observer It roars and ignites and hits the ground running. Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal A n inverse cost-to-quality ratio seems to have been operating in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," Guy Ritchie's debut feature about four cocky young men coming up against major thugs in London's East End. Apr 4, 2018 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...dense, impenetrable... Rated: 1/4 Dec 30, 2021 Full Review Rob Harvilla The Ringer Guy Ritchie's scrappy, twisty, cheerfully ultraviolent tale of hapless small-time English hoodlums might be his best work. Mar 26, 2019 Full Review CSM Staff Christian Science Monitor The humor is as rude and crude as the characters, but the picture certainly isn't lacking in energy. Rated: 2/4 Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Eddy (Nick Moran) convinces three friends to pool funds for a high-stakes poker game against local crime boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty). Harry cheats and Eddy loses, giving him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds or hand over his father's pub. Desperate, Eddy and his friends wait for their neighbors to rob some drug dealers, then rob the robbers in turn. After both thefts, the number of interested criminal parties increases, with the four friends in dangerously over their heads.
      Director
      Guy Ritchie
      Executive Producer
      Stephen Marks, Peter Morton, Angad Paul, Trudie Styler, Steve Tisch
      Screenwriter
      Guy Ritchie
      Distributor
      Gramercy Pictures
      Production Co
      Handmade Films, The Steve Tisch Company, SKA Films, Summit Entertainment, Steve Tisch Company, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
      Rating
      R (Pervasive Language|Drug Content|Sexuality|Strong Violence)
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama, Action, Crime
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Mar 5, 1998, Wide
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 12, 2014
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $3.7M
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby SR
      Aspect Ratio
      Flat (1.85:1)
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