That Sinking Feeling

That Sinking Feeling

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

1980 · 93 min · ★ 6.2 · Comedy, Drama, Crime

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.

Directed by Bill Forsyth · Written by Bill Forsyth

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