warn represent my comment should be regard a a sad old sod musing on a movie remember fondly from his youth . i be not go to dissect the movie scene by scene . i would not compare forsyth earlier work with his best know or fine moment . i be not even go to discuss any particular aspect of the film . not the setting and the story and the dialogue and not even the individual performance . i be simply go to say that i remember watch this movie ( with my family ) on tv back in the early eighty and laugh so hard it actually hurt . i have no idea if it have age well or not because i haven not see it in over 20 year but i will say this in it favour or defence and that sink feel give glasgow a voice and a character that rarely be hear before nor since . don not get me wrong and i be not a glaswegian so i have no personal axe to grind in that respect and i just feel that the human face of glasgow ( or scotland for that matter ) hasn not be depict quite so sympathetically a in this movie . it seem to me that and when contemporary filmmaker try to present an honest depiction of the glaswegian he tend to go for the gritty realism of the drunk or the druggie or the wife beat hard man . that sink feel take a different tack and demonstrate the dry scottish humour we all recognise ( even more so and we native of scotland ) and perhaps that why we seem to remember it so fondly . anyway and if you can find a copy and watch it . just do not expect any cool cg effect or seinfeldesque banter and just good clean work class urban banality and the comedic observation you would expect from a good clean work class director feel his way . incidentally and sometime back in 1992/3 i meet the redheaded actor ( shamefully i can not recall his name right now ) from that sink feel work in stirling castle and conducting tour and the like . not only do he star in one of my favourite production and he be also an all round and really nice guy . bonus .