Rent Gregory's Girl (1980)
3.7 of 5 from 177 ratings
1h 27min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) and his friends are starting to notice girls - particularly Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), not least because she's on the football team and is a better player than all the boys. With counselling from his younger sister, can Gregory finally work up the courage to ask Dorothy out?
- Actors:
- John Gordon-Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan, Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, Allan Love, Caroline Guthrie, Carol Macartney, Douglas Sannachan, Allison Forster, Chic Murray, Alex Norton, John Bett, Dave Anderson, Billy Feeley, Maeve Watt, Muriel Romanes, Patrick Lewsley, Ronald Girvin
- Directors:
- Bill Forsyth
- Producers:
- Davina Belling, Clive Parsons
- Writers:
- Bill Forsyth
- Studio:
- Cinema Club
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- Award Winners, Back to School: Best Films Featuring Teachers, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, Films & TV by topic, Films to Watch If You Like..., The Best Football Films: Cinema Paradiso's First XI, The Big Match: Gregory's Girl v Bend It Like Beckham, Top 100 BFI Films, Top Films, What to Watch Next If You Liked Chariots of Fire
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 05/05/2014
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode
- Bill Forsyth - The Early Years: An Interview with the Director
- Gregory's Girl Memories: An Interview with Clare Grogan
- Alternative U.S. Audio Soundtrack
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/09/2023
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode (2014)
- Newly recorded audio commentary with Robert Buchanan, Douglas Sannachan and Caroline Guthrie
- 'Gregory's Girl' Q&A with John Gordon Sinclair, Clare Grogan and Dee Hepburn (2015, 30 mins): the stars of 'Gregory's Girl' are interviewed on stage by Sue Harris to mark the film's 35th anniversary
- Bill Forsyth: The Early Years (2014, 21 mins): an archive interview with the director
- The Strathclyde Tapes: Bill Forsyth (1992, 38 mins): the writer and director discusses his career and film craft with an audience of schoolchildren in this rarely seen archive interview
- Clare Grogan: 'Gregory's Girl' Memories (2014, 12 mins): an interview with the actor
- Soundtrack gallery (2023, 13 mins): alternative takes and unused music from 'Gregory's Girl', accompanied by a selection of stills from the BFI National Archive
- Alternative US dialogue version
- US trailer
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Reviews (2) of Gregory's Girl
Short, brilliant film about teenage angst - Gregory's Girl review by RP
A short, brilliant film by Bill Forsyth that tells the story of teenage angst in a Scottish new town.
Gregory is a gangling, awkward young man who is besotted by Dorothy, who outclasses all the boys in the school football team. Gregory and his friends yearn for their first encounter with the opposite sex, but are so awkward that they really don't know how – perhaps a situation we've all been in? It is of course the girls who set the ball rolling, and Gregory has a series of encounters which culminate in kisses with Susan. Perhaps he was not so infatuated with Dorothy as he at first thought...
I first saw this film some 30 years ago and it still holds its charm - and humour - today. Yes, the haircuts and clothes may be dated and perhaps the age of teenage innocence has passed, but the awkwardness of our teens persists. 5/5 stars. Highly recommended.
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Teen Comedy Drama - A Little dated - Gregory's Girl review by GI
A slightly whimsical coming of age comedy drama set in Scotland in the early 1980s and a film that was popular as a sexual awakening narrative but is very much of its time and viewed today does seem very dated. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is a lanky teenager who has an easy going nature but he becomes infatuated with Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), a girl at his school who successfully tries out for the boy's football team where she is soon the star player. As Gregory fawns around her he fails to notice that another girl, Susan (Clare Grogan) really likes him until she hatches a plan with Dorothy to get on a date with Gregory. A film where the boys are incompetently sex obsessed and the girls have a new maturity that allows them to manipulate accordingly. There's a charm to this gentle comedy which is worth checking out of you've never seen it.
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