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That Sinking Feeling
UNITED KINGDOM · 1979

That Sinking Feeling

Bill Forsyth
youth unemployment petty crime working-class Glasgow male friendship heist schemes
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Synopsis

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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