Film

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998

Directed by Guy Ritchie

  • Comedy, Crime
  • 105 min
  • R

A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.

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.

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