How Smoke & Stack Made Their Money In Sinners -

Ryan Coogler’s new period supernatural horror movie Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers Smoke and Stack Moore, who show up in their former hometown with an incredible amount of money to kick off the action. Sinners broke box office records in its opening weekend, as the music-heavy vampire story set in Mississippi in the 1930s has garnered acclaim from critics and moviegoers alike. It chronicles the return of Smoke and Stack Moore, hardened antiheroes who come back to their hometown after years away to open up a juke joint.

The brothers have a deep history in the town and the people who still live there, which makes their return a noteworthy event. On their first day back in town, they work to open up Club Juke, a new destination for dancing, drinking, and gambling for the local black sharecroppers. They purchase an old sawmill and, with the help of their family and friends, clean, stock, and run the juke joint that very night. The fact that they opened a club so quickly begs the question of how much money Smoke and Stack had, and how they came by it.

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Smoke & Stack Have Been Bank Robbers For Years

The Twin Brothers Returned To Mississippi After Time In Chicago

Michael B. Jordan's Smoke and Stack standing next to each other in Sinners

It’s hinted in the movie that the two brothers hooked up with notorious gangster Al Capone in Chicago, where they spent time before returning home. They also showed up with a truckload of Irish beer and Italian wine, further impying that the two brothers had gang ties in Chicago. An Easter egg that can be found on Spotify confirmed that the two brothers did indeed come by their money through illicit means, first as small-time bank robbers in the South. They later connected with Capone and moved to Chicago, or moved to Chicago and met Capone, although it’s never clarified.

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A	98%	97%	84	8.2/10

The fact that the two brothers immediately looked into opening a business and using up all their suspiciously fancy drinks points to something even more nefarious at play. Once again, the Easter eggs that can be found on Spotify confirm that the two brothers hightailed it back to Mississippi after robbing both the Irish Mob and the Italian Mafia in Chicago. The brothers seem to have a good business sense, Smoke especially, but they definitely didn’t come by the money they used to buy Club Juke through any honest means.

How Rich Smoke & Stack Really Are In Sinners

They Buy A Building And Stock It Quickly, All With Cash

It’s tough to put an exact total on the amount of money that the two brothers likely had at the beginning of Sinners, but they’re pretty fast and loose about distributing it. They purchase items by sheer force of will, even from unwilling merchants, and pull stunts like Smoke offering a young girl 20 cents a minute to watch his truck and honk if someone tries to steal it. They’re still negotiating prices, though, so the money is clearly not limitless. They have enough to purchase the sawmill that turns into Club Juke, but they staff it with friends and family.

They also stock it with beverages they brought with them; the aforementioned Irish beer and Italian wine indicates that they were probably on the run from the gangs of Chicago. Smoke and Stack were looking to both dispose of the evidence that their latest robbery targets were the gangs themselves, and turn a profit with the drinks and club. They were clearly well-off after their robberies, but their concerns about Club Juke’s profits in Sinners indicate that they had enough to get a business started, but not much more.