Bill Forsyth's first feature film came out in 1980 and is a heist caper involving a group of bored and unemployed Glasgow teenagers who plan to break into a warehouse to steal a batch of stainless steel kitchen sinks (hence the pun-worthy title). The film came out a year before Forsyth's break-out hit Gregory's Girl and involves much of the same cast. It is a highly entertaining film in its own right but it is also one of those curios that is a joy to behold simply for perfectly capturing and documenting a period in its setting's history, in much the same way Get Carter acts as a snapshot of Newcastle in the early 70s. When Gregory's Girl and Local Hero became international successes That Sinking Feeling was released in America four years after it was first released in the UK. The American version though had to be dubbed for audiences to be able to understand the thick Glaswegian dialect, a process which ended up costing more than the actual film did to make.
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