History Film / HighHeelsAndLowLifes

* YouWouldntShootMe: After being captured, Mason recognises that Shannon and Frances are clearly amateurs, and calls Shannon's bluff when she is threatening to shoot him: telling her that he knows she won't because [[NotWithTheSafetyOnYouWont she hasn't even turned the safety catch off on her gun]]. This backfires when Shannon, a nurse, instead fills a syringe with insulin and injects half of it into him: leaving the syringe in his arm. She then tells him that the dose he just recieved will make him woozy and light-headed. If he does not tell her where the money is, she will inject the rest of the syringe, which will be lethal.

Shannon (Driver) is a London nurse who finds her boyfriend Ray (Boyd), a "sound sculptor," becoming increasingly dull and inattentive. When he forgets her birthday, she decides to hit the town with best pal Frances ([=McCormack=]), an American actress wasting her time in terrible small-theatre productions and low rent voice-over work. After returning to Shannon's apartment, the girls overhear a cell phone conversation on Ray's scanner detailing a multi-million pound safe-deposit box robbery going on at a nearby bank. When police are uninterested in their information, the girls get the idea to blackmail the robbers to get a share of the money and purchase some much-needed medical equipment for the hospital where Shannon works. But when the criminals, led by the hard-as-nails Mason ([=McNally=]), counteract with their own scheme, the caper begins to go wildly out of control.

''High Heels and Low Lifes'' is a 2001 action comedy-drama film starring Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/MaryMcCormack, Creator/{{Kevin McNally}}, Creator/MarkWilliams, Creator/DannyDyer and Creator/MichaelGambon, and directed by Creator/MelSmith.

Shannon (Driver) is a London nurse who finds her boyfriend Ray, a "sound sculptor," becoming increasingly dull and inattentive. When he forgets her birthday, she decides to hit the town with best pal Frances ([=McCormack=]), an American actress wasting her time in terrible small-theatre productions and low rent voice-over work. Returning to Shannon's apartment, the girls overhear a cell phone conversation on Ray's scanner detailing a multi-million pound safe-deposit box robbery going on at a nearby bank. When police are uninterested in their information, the girls get the idea to blackmail the robbers to get a share. The criminals, led by the hard-as-nails Mason ([=McNally=]), counteract with their own scheme, and the caper begins to go wildly out of control.

* LawOfInverseRecoil: When Shannon, who has obviously never fired a gun before, attempts to shoot an automatic rifle, the recoil causes the barrel to rise uncontrollably, so that she not only completely misses her targets but by the end of the bust she is shooting the roof. And when she fires the underbarrel grenade launcher, the recoil knocks her backwards into a hedge.

* LawOfInverseRecoil: When Shannon, who has obviously never fired a gun before, attempts to shoot an automatic rifle, the recoil causes the barrel to rise uncontrollably, so that she not only completely misses her targets but by the end of the bust she is shooting the roof. And when she fire the underbarrel grenade launcher, the recoil knocks her backwards into a hedge.

''High Heels and Low Lifes'' is a 2001 action comedy-drama film starring Creator/MinnieDriver, Creator/MaryMcCormack, Creator/KevinMcNally, Creator/MarkWilliams, Creator/DannyDyer and Creator/MichaelGambon, and directed by Creator/MelSmith.

* SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb: Mason and Barry containing the blackmail payment out of the train window into the field where Frances is waiting. Frances takes the case and stows it in her car. However, the case actually contains a bomb which Mason detonates remotely.