Bill Forsyth's feature debut, enacted by the Glasgow Youth Theatre, is typically inventive, deadpan and funny. Robert Buchanan comes up with the bright idea to steal a warehouse full of sinks and make a 'fortune', enlists the help of other miscreants, including a baker who has invented a knockout serum.
Great little touches abound, such as boy eating other's burger, trying not to be overheard by a dog, the boys in drag sidetracking watchmen, unconscious man who's arm remains in a coffee-drinking pose.
Gritty 4x3 shooting in rainy Glasgow. We loved the scene between Buchanan and ex school friend now copper, with the two little kids watching them in the background.
"I'm a girl... I'm a boy" - shades of Some Like It Hot?
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