That Sinking Feeling

That Sinking Feeling is a 1979 Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth, his first film as a director. The film is set in his home city of Glasgow (the Calton, Bridgeton and Parkhead areas) in Scotland. The young actors in film were members of the Glasgow Youth Theatre. The film also features Richard Demarco, the Edinburgh gallery owner, playing himself. The four main actors went on to feature in Forsyth's following film Gregory's Girl. Plot Ronnie (Robert Buchanan), Wal (Billy Greenlees), Andy (John Gordon Sinclair) and Vic (John Hughes) are four bored, unemployed teenagers from Glasgow. One day, Ronnie comes up with the idea of stealing stainless steel sinks from a warehouse and selling them. Their plan involves dressing up as girls and using a strong tranquiliser ('stop-motion potion') on the driver of a bread van (Morton's Rolls). During the robbery they encounter a ninja style thief (John Gordon Sinclair) who asks to join them. They steal 74 sinks but do not manage to sell many. Richard Demarco buys four in a pile as an artwork at the bargain price of £200. They still have many to sell, still in the back of the bread van, when they accidentally take an identical van and end with a load of doughnuts. Meanwhile the heavily tranquilised van driver ends up in hospital, and it is thought he will awake in 2068.