Stark Raving Mad 2002

On a single, tense night in a neon-lit nightclub, Ben McGewan hatches a high-stakes plan to settle his and his late brother’s debt with a local Chinese crime lord by stealing a revered ancient Chinese statuette. The club’s owner, Roy, is furious about the noise and the risk to his license, yet the loud, unruly atmosphere is exactly what the scheme depends on.

To pull it off, he hires three ‘experienced’ bank robbers to perform the actual heist, while he and his assistant work to keep the club night running smoothly and incident-free. But the plan begins to unravel when two FBI agents—there undercover to monitor a drugs deal—start blending into the crowd, threatening to derail everything with their presence.

A Chinese food delivery boy wanders in, lending improvised cover stories for the loud bangs emanating from the basement as the action spirals toward its peak. As dawn nears, the plan pivots toward a bold gambit: Ben captures money from the bank vault and engineers a scenario in which both the crime lord and his rival Chinese gang are inside the vault when the alarm trips.

The money behind the scheme belongs to the crime lord, but under a different alias, and the fallout ultimately sees him implicated for stealing his own funds. The night becomes a tight, escalating game of deception where every move narrows the window between survival and exposure, and where the line between loyalty and money blur in a high-stakes twist of fortune and fate.