Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Aug 28, 1998

1h 45m

★ 8.1

A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.

Overview

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

The Steve Tisch Company

SKA Films

Handmade Films

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Trailers

Cast

Big Chris

Vinnie Jones

Tom

Jason Flemyng

Soap

Dexter Fletcher

Eddy

Nick Moran

Bacon

Jason Statham

Winston

Steven Mackintosh

Nicholas Rowe

Charles

Nick Marcq

Willie

Charles Forbes

Barry the Baptist

Lenny McLean

Little Chris

Peter McNicholl

'Hatchet' Harry Lonsdale

P.H. Moriarty

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