That Sinking Feeling

Oct 1, 1980

1h 33m

★ 6.2

There's got to be more to life than committing suicide.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Minor Miracle Film Cooperative

Lake Films

Glasgow Youth Theatre

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Cast

Ronnie

Robert Buchanan

Wal

Billy Greenlees

Vic

John Hughes

Andy

John Gordon Sinclair

Pete

Drew Burns

Eddie the Driver

Eddie Burt

Bobby

Derek Millar

The Wee Man

Eric Joseph

Simmy

Douglas Sannachan

Alec

Alan Love

Mary

Janette Rankin

The Doctor

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