Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.
Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.
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On Vinnie Jones' first day of filming, he had just been released from police custody - he had been arrested for beating up his neighbor.
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Big Chris and Little Chris meet with Hatchet Harry and Barry the Baptist in Harry's office following the gun robbery, Harry is shown cleaning one of the "pair" of rifles that were stolen. The guns were in the possession of Bacon and the boys at that time, so Harry could not have had one.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Bacon:
Right. Let's sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don't, because if you can't see value here today, you're not up here shopping. You're up here shoplifting. You see these goods? Never seen daylight...
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"Truly Madly, Deeply"
Performed by Skanga Courtesy of A&M Records Ltd., London Licensed by kind permission of The Polygram Commercial Marketing Division Published by Fido Speaks Music (ASLAP)
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