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That Sinking Feeling

That Sinking Feeling

Comedy Crime Drama

1980, Movie, 1h 33min

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.

Country: United Kingdom

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John Gordon Sinclair,

Alex Mackenzie,

Douglas Sannachan

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Critic William Thomas

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8

Bill Forsyth’s first feature, made with unknown young actors in Glasgow, is funnier, meaner and less wistful than his subsequent successes...

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