I finally just watched this after years of looking for a copy on DVD.
Shoot For The Sun is the only one of Peter McDougalls films that has never been repeated on television or had an official release on DVD which is quite strange considering that his other classics such as Just A Boys Game, Just Another Saturday and Down Among The Big Boys have all been released on DVD and are repeated regularly on the BBC Scotland Channel.
In this gritty drama Peter McDougall shows us a darker side to 1980's Edinburgh, Jimmy Nail and Brian Cox are two failed bank robbers who turn to selling Heroin on the streets of Edinburgh as a way of making easy money, Jimmy Nail's character Geordie is ruthless and unremorseful whilst Brian Cox's character Dunny is distressed and cautious about the epidemic happening around them, the trouble starts when Dunny starts to question their motives about the business and decides to get out.
If You are a fan of Peter McDougall's earlier works of Just Another Saturday and Just A Boys Game, I would definitely recommend giving Shoot For The Sun a look.