That Sinking Feeling

That Sinking Feeling (1980)

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

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.

Date of release
1980-10-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Crime
Director
Bill Forsyth

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $10K

That Sinking Feeling is a 1979 Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth. His first film as a director, it is set in his home city of Glasgow in Scotland. The young actors in the film were members of the Glasgow Youth Theatre; the four main actors went on to feature in Forsyth's next film, Gregory's Girl. That Sinking Feeling also features Richard Demarco, the Edinburgh art gallery owner, playing himself.

Production

Forsyth said "I couldn't actually afford real actors, and I certainly hadn't had any experience working with them. So I asked the teenagers at a Glasgow community centre if they would appear in my movie at no pay. Actually, I promised them points in the film (a percentage of any profits)."

Filming took place on location around the city of Glasgow; scenes featured locations such as Kelvingrove Park, Dennistoun, Springburn and Bishopbriggs railway stations, Cowcaddens, Sighthill, Whiteinch and Woodside. The area surrounding the Forth and Clyde Canal also featured heavily around Pinkston and Port Dundas. The tower block featured in the film where the main characters live was 31 Ruby Street, Dalmarnock.

Allan Court (which was a building site at the time) in Gardenhall, East Kilbride, was also used as a location for the night scene.

The film was released in the United States four years after it appeared in the United Kingdom; this followed the success of Gregory's Girl and Local Hero. For the American market, (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) the soundtrack was re-dubbed using more mainstream accents from Edinburgh. The MGM version cost more to re-dub than the entire budget for the film itself.

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