Snatch
The main character is Turkish(Jason Statham), who is a small time unlicensed boxing promoter, who has turn to the pikey Mickey(Brad Pitt), when he gets in debt to the unscrupulous boxing promoter and gangster Brick Top(Alan Ford).
The movie is made up of a few parallel going stories, all these stories is neatly woven together with the pursuit of a 84 carat diamond.
Why I love Snatch.
Snatch (Widescreen Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 07/26/2008)
Superb movie, great fun. If you liked 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', you will definitely love Snatch as well.
Guy Ritchie has done it again.
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Turkish
Jason Statham
Turkish is a small time unlicensed boxing promoter, who gets into debt when he loses his boxer, Gorgeous George, before a fight.He agrees to find a new boxer, but he has to make him go down in the fifth.
Tommy
Stephen Graham
Tommy is Turkish's friend and business partner. When Tommy and Gorgeous George goes to a pikey(slang for Irish gypsy) campsite, to get a new caravan, they get hustled and George ends up in a bare handed boxing match. Which ends in a broken neck for George. Brick Top
Alan Ford
As a unscrupulous boxing promoter, bookie and gangster, Brick Top is the wrong guy to get on bad terms with. He has a pig farm, which he uses for disposal of bodies.When he feels cheated by Turkish and Tommy, he wants them to produce a boxer and have him lose on purpose. At the same time he is hunting a couple of small time criminals, who robbed his bookie shop.
Mickey
Brad Pitt
Mickey, an Irish gypsy, ends up fighting Gorgeous George barehanded, on George and Tommy's visit to his trailer park. And Micky ends up enduring George so severely that George is unable to fight in the upcoming match against Brick Tops boxer.After being promised a new caravan for his mother, by Turkish and Tommy, Mickey agrees to meet Brick Top's boxer in the ring. Mickey also agrees to go down in the fourth round, but as the fight starts he changes his mind. Which puts himself, Turkish and Tommy in a bad situation.
Bullet Tooth Tony
Vinnie Jones
A tough guy and bully, who gets paid for getting the needed information out of people, most of the time in a none verbal manner.He got his name from being shot six times in one sitting, once in the mouth. He got the bullet covered in gold and wears it as a tooth.
Franky Four Fingers
Benicio Del Toro
After robbing a diamond place in Antwerpen, Four Fingers makes a stop in London, England before going to New York to deliver a 84 carat diamond to a Jewish jeweler.Unfortunately Four Fingers, has somewhat of a gambling problem(also the reason for his name). So a rigged boxing match is brought to his attention, he eyes a good chance to do some gambling.
Boris The Blade
Rade Serbedzija
Also known as Boris the Bullet-dodger, he is an ex KGB, now gangster and illegal arms dealer.Story tells that it is impossible to kill him.
When his brother tells him that Four Fingers is coming to London with the diamond, Boris and his brother plots to get some one else to steal the diamond.
Sol & Vinny
Lenny James & Robbie Gee
Jewelers with a side job of being small time criminals and hustlers. Boris The Blade hires them for the job of robbing the diamond from Franky Four Fingers, while he is at the bookies. Unfortunately for them, Four Fingers never shows, and they choose to rob the bookie, which is owned by Brick Top. Cousin Avi
Dennis Farina
After hiring Four Fingers to rob the diamond shop in Antwerpen, Avi is waiting for Four Fingers to return to New York with the stone.But when Four Fingers disappears, he goes to London to try and find him. He hires Bullet Tooth to help him find Four Fingers and his diamond.
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Best Snatch Quotes
Brick Top: It can get you in a lot of trouble, thinking, Errol, so I suggest you don't do it.
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You've got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the chopped up body will look like curry to a pisshead.
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Brick Top: Do you know what 'nemesis' means? 'A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an apropriate agent.' Personified, in this case, by a horrible cunt: Me.
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Avi: Why do they call him the bullet dodger? Bullet Tooth: Because he dodges bullets, Avi.
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