Bill Forsyths first feature, made with unknown young actors in Glasgow, is funnier, meaner and less wistful than his subsequent successes, and certainly something youll want to own if youve already worn out your copies of Gregorys Girl and Local Hero.
A group of unemployed kids see a way out of their rut by masterminding a heist, but unaccountably decide to rob a warehouse of a cache of amazingly non-valuable sinks. A typical joke has a depressed teenager explain that his suicide attempt failed because his cornflakes bowl wasn't deep enough for him to drown in it.
Unfortunately for viewers Stateside, the producers redubbed the dialogue reduce the heavy Glasgow accents, which would have been unintelligible to yanky-doodles.