The film is set in his home city of Glasgow (the Calton, Bridgeton and Parkhead areas) in Scotland.

Their plan involves dressing up as women and using a strong tranquiliser ('stop-motion potion') on the driver of a Morton's Rolls bread van.

Allan Court (which was a building site at the time) in Gardenhall, East Kilbride was also used as a location for the night scene.

[4] Vincent Canby, in The New York Times wrote that "That Sinking Feeling doesn't have quite the panache of Gregory's Girl and Local Hero" but nonetheless praised it as "amiable", "funny" and "gentle".

[5] A review in Empire gave That Sinking Feeling four stars out of five, calling it "funnier, meaner and less wistful than [Forsyth's] subsequent successes".

This has generated controversy however due to the use of the re-dubbed soundtrack, which had the effect of impinging upon the delivery of the dialogue and character of the film.