Born into poverty in the U.S., Michael "Mickey" Pearson won a
Rhodes Scholarship to
Oxford, where he began selling
marijuana before
dropping out and becoming a
narcotics baron, building a criminal empire in blood and growing
cannabis in labs under the estates of aristocratic landlords who need cash for the upkeep of their
stately homes. One such landlord is Lord Pressfield, a
duke whose daughter Laura grows up to be a heroin-addicted pop star living in a
council estate with other addicts. Now middle-aged, Pearson plans to sell his empire and retire peacefully with his wife, Rosalind. Pearson's chosen candidate is American billionaire and cannabis baron Matthew Berger, and his price is £400 million. After showing Berger one of the labs, Pearson is approached by up-and-coming Chinese gangster Dry Eye who offers and fails to buy out Pearson's business. The aforementioned lab is raided by amateur
MMA fighters and aspiring
YouTubers "The Toddlers", who overpower the guards, steal marijuana, and upload a
rap video of their caper online. The Toddlers' horrified trainer "Coach" orders them to delete the video. Seeking to expose Pearson,
Daily Print tabloid editor Big Dave hires
private detective Fletcher to investigate Pearson's links to Lord Pressfield. At the request of Pressfield, Pearson sends his right-hand man, Raymond, to bring Laura home. In a brawl with her flatmates, one of Raymond's men accidentally kills Aslan, a young Russian. Laura is returned to her parents but shortly after relapses and dies of an overdose. Coach visits Raymond, apologizes for The Toddlers' actions, and offers his services in compensation. Coach discovers that The Toddlers learned about Pearson's lab location via Dry Eye. Dry Eye is actually in league with Berger, who seeks disrupting Pearson's business to reduce the price; Dry Eye, meanwhile, covets Pearson's empire for himself. Dry Eye tries to kidnap Rosalind, who kills his men before running out of bullets; Pearson intervenes, killing Dry Eye as he is about to rape her. That night, Fletcher attempts to blackmail Pearson's operation, offering Raymond everything he has discovered (typed up as a
screenplay entitled
Bush) for £20 million. Coach orders The Toddlers to capture Big Dave; they drug him and film him having sex with a pig, threatening to post it online unless he drops his investigation. Pearson and Berger meet to finalize the deal, and Berger drops his offer to £130 million on account of the recent disruptions. Pearson reneges on the sale entirely in light of Berger's sabotage, and forces him into a refrigerator where he will freeze to death unless he transfers £270 million as compensation for the cost of restoring order. Because Rosalind was assaulted, Pearson also demands "
a pound of flesh" from Berger's own body, anywhere Berger chooses, as recompense for the indiscretion. Fletcher approaches Raymond again for his payment, but Raymond reveals he has been tailing Fletcher all along and has had the Toddlers retrieve Fletcher's stashes of evidence, nullifying Fletcher's blackmail threat. Fletcher admits he also sold the info to Aslan's father, a
Russian oligarch and former
KGB agent who is keen to avenge his son's death and has sent assassins to kill both Pearson and Raymond. Coach kills the two sent for Raymond. Pearson is kidnapped by two other Russians, but they are ambushed by The Toddlers who riddle the car with bullets, killing the Russians and allowing Pearson to escape. The Pearsons return to their cannabis empire and celebrate together. Fletcher calls a cab to escape but finds he is a prisoner, leaving the ending to the imagination. ==Cast==