That Sinking Feeling (1979)

Review: That Sinking Feeling (1979)

Director: Bill Forsyth

Cast: Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, John Hughes, John Gordon Sinclair, Drew Burns,

Robert Buchanan
Robert Buchanan
Billy Greenlees
Billy Greenlees
John Hughes
John Hughes
John Gordon Sinclair
John Gordon Sinclair
Drew Burns
Drew Burns

Plot: Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion-potion.

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Recent disks from England, part one

Recent disks from England, part one

The latest Flipside release from the BFI, Bill Forsyth’s That Sinking Feeling, is like a cross between a gritty Ken Loach working class story and a Children’s Film Foundation fantasy of kid […]

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