Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Alive (1993)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

After a week off for Easter, the Film Stories podcast is back with more behind the scenes movie stories. It's going all gangster this time too, with the tale of how Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels had to scale down from a very expensive film to a very cheap one. And the moment when Tom Cruise lent it a helping hand too. Then it's 1993's Alive, telling a difficult true story on film, and as it turns out, a story that involved around 18 different scripts across a decade or so. The turning point? It might just have been a car bumper sticker! Stories of both are told in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.1	I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom.
0:03.8	I'm Elisa.
0:04.6	Can I go over to Josie's house to play?
0:06.4	She met a new friend and puff.
0:07.9	She's gone.
0:09.0	An ordinary play date.
0:10.5	The missing child is Lucia Blix.
0:12.4	Nine years old.
0:13.4	Is about to become every parent's nightmare.
0:16.3	The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously.
0:19.9	She's hiding something, I know it.
0:21.8	The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.5	18 plus subscription required.
0:29.0	Teas and Cs apply.
0:30.0	The autopilot order.
0:31.5	Now, informal.
0:32.8	The strong urge felt at the ordering kiosk or drive-through that takes over the entire body and mind
0:37.6	and results in a person ordering a Big Mac without even having to think.
0:41.4	Related phrases. Looks like I've ordered a Big Mac again.
0:44.5	The autopilot order at McDonald's.
0:47.9	Serves from 11am subject to availability.
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