Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999)

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Daughters of the Dust

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Daughters of the Dust." A film that portrays the unique culture of the Gullah people by focusing on the extended Peazant family as its members struggle with the decision to leave their island and move north. On the eve of their departure, memories of their Gullah history and its African roots come rising to the surface. Winner of Cinematography at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.

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Rating: R

Release Date: Mar 5, 1999

Running Time: 107 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven MacKintosh, Nicholas Rowe, Nick Marcq, Charlie Forbes, Vinnie Jones, Lenny McLean

director: Guy Ritchie

A collection of law-dodging characters in London are brought together by coincidence when a streetwise young man loses half-a-million pounds in a card game. He has a week to get together the money or face losing some fingers. Desperate, he and his friends decide to rip off a gang who are planning to rip off a bunch of ganja farmers. Simple. Except the drug dealers want their money back, as do the theives, and now there are three sets of criminals after their blood.

September 18, 2002

Bernard Allison is the guitar-playing, singing and songwriting son of the late, legendary blues guitarist Luther Allison. True to form for this chip off the old block, the young Allison injects every bit as much energy into his live shows as his late father did. Bernard counts among his influences icons like Albert King, Muddy Waters and Freddie King, and later, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter. Allison began accompanying his famous father to blues festivals in the early 1970s. There, he…