Synopsis

After losing a rigged card game to feared crime boss Hatchet Harry, Eddy has one week to repay a massive debt. He and his three friends plan to rob a neighboring gang, but their scheme collides with stolen antique shotguns, drug dealers, armed criminals, and several competing plots. As misunderstandings multiply, London's underworld spirals toward a chaotic and unpredictable showdown.

Factoids & Trivia

• The film was released in the United Kingdom on August 28, 1998, and runs approximately 106 minutes.

• Its production was mounted on a very small budget, with much of the financing having to be raised quickly after the original funding fell through.

• The broken-glass moment involving Nick the Greek and a coffee table was reportedly accidental. It was retained in the finished film after the incident occurred during filming.

• The film was dedicated to Lenny McLean, who played Barry the Baptist. McLean died of lung cancer one month before the premiere.

• Vinnie Jones' appearance as Big Chris helped turn a brief role into the beginning of a prominent film career. The BFI later described his prominence on the poster as disproportionate to the size of the part.

• The title expands the expression "lock, stock and barrel," meaning the whole thing, while adding a reference to the pair of antique double-barreled shotguns central to the story.

• The film became a major word-of-mouth British hit and helped revive the British gangster-comedy cycle in the late 1990s.