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Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels

Number 214 on IMDb's Top 250

Nominated by Mick

Eddy has been known as a cardsharp since he was young. So he and his three friends Soap, Tom and Bacon all decide to chip in £25,000 each to allow him to play in an illegal high-roller game run by one of the local villains, Hatchet Harry. However, Eddy didn't realise the game was crooked and he ends up owing Harry £500,000 with dire threats about losing his fingers one at a time if he doesn't pay within a week! Eddy and his friends discuss various completely illegal schemes to obtain the money and eventually decide to rip-off the gang of thieves next door who themselves are planning to raid a clandestine drug growing operation which keeps all of its money in shoeboxes where they grow the cannabis plants. The scheme is simple enough but the best laid plans of mice and men always seems to go awry as does this one. As extreme hilarity ensues the violence and associated body count spiral out of control, Eddy and his friends realize that they are out of their depth and desperately try to find a way out before they too find themselves among the casualties!

Trivia: The scene where 'Nick the Bubble' breaks the glass in the coffee table was not in the original script. It was, in fact, an accident that happened during filming and was written in by Guy Richie as an afterthought.

This was a pretty strange yet very funny movie. There are many close calls and serendipity for the four friends. I can't wait to see Snatch. Thanks Mick.