Unemployed teenager Ronnie (Robert Buchanan, Gregory’s Girl) and his hapless pals spend their time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafés of Glasgow, but their world is about to change when Ronnie hatches a plan to make them all rich.
Hilarious and inventive, this zero-budget debut from director Bill Forsyth (Gregory’s Girl, Local Hero, Comfort and Joy) is presented here in a new High Definition transfer complete with the original Glaswegian dialogue track.
BFI Flipside is dedicated to rediscovering the margins of British film, reclaiming a space for forgotten movies that would otherwise be in danger of disappearing from our screens forever. It is a home for UK cinematic oddities, offering everything from exploitation documentaries to B-movies, countercultural curios and obscure classics, If it's weird, British and forgotten, then it's Flipside.