Gregory's Girl

Director: Bill Forsyth Bill Forsyth

Overview

The sophomore film of Scottish director Bill Forsyth was his first international hit, a typically quirky comedy set amongst colorful Scottish teenagers. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is a normal, gangly, hormonally-challenged student who, like his pals, has begun to discover the charms of the opposite sex, particularly those of Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), the new girl in school and a talented soccer player. Dorothy joins the team, and Gregory instantly becomes smitten with her. Gregory's affections are a given in spite of the fact that Dorothy is a better player than most of the boys on the hapless team, and her presence inspires a great deal of angst and embarrassment. Gregory is prepared to go to humiliating lengths in order to win Dorothy's attention, but it doesn't quite work out as he anticipates. The winner of a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Gregory's Girl was followed 18 years later by a sequel, Gregory's Two Girls (1999).

Product Details

Release Date:	02/11/2020
UPC:	0850003924694
Original Release:	1980
Rating:	PG
Source:	Film Movement
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	53,046

Special Features

Audio commentary with Bill Forsyth and Mark Kermode; Bill Forsyth on Gregory's Girl interview; Bill Forsyth - The Early Years interview; Gregory's Girl Memories interview with Clare Grogan; New essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray; Alternative U.S. and French dub versions; English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gordon John Sinclair	Gregory
Dee Hepburn	Dorothy
Jake D'Arcy	Phil Menzies
Clare Grogan	Susan
Robert Buchanan	Andy
Billy Greenlees	Steve
Alan Love	Eric
Caroline Guthrie	Carol
Carol Macartney	Margo
Douglas Sannachan	Billy
Allison Forster	Madeline
Chic Murray	Headmaster
Alex Norton	Alec
John Bett	Alistair
Graham Thompson	Charlie
William Greenlees	Steve
David Anderson	Gregory's father
Pat Harkins	Kelvin
Dave Anderson	Actor
Colin Tully	Composer

Technical Credits

Bill Forsyth

Davina Belling	Producer
Bill Forsyth	Director,Screenwriter
Clive Parsons	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Gregory's Girl
1. Changes [7:06]
2. Daft Boy [7:48]
3. Dorothy [5:51]
4. What A Girl [8:13]
5. Speaking Italian [6:35]
6. Family Trouble [7:08]
7. Love Crisis [7:40]
8. Photograph [7:00]
9. Sweaty Lunch [6:41]
10. Turn Steady Kick [7:27]
11. Kiss [17:44]
12. Credits [1:48]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Gregory's Girl
   Play Gregory's Girl
   Chapters
   Setup
      Original Audio Soundtrack
      Alternative U.S. Audio Soundtrack
      French Dub
      SDH English Subtitles: On
      SDH English Subtitles: Off
   Special Features
      Audio Commentary With Bill Forsyth And Mark Kermode: On
      Audio Commentary With Bill Forsyth And Mark Kermode: Off
      Bill Forsyth On Gregory's Girl Interview
      Bill Forsyth - The Early Years Interview
      Gregory's Girl Memories - An Interview With Clare Grogan
      Gregory's Girl Trailer
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Editorial Reviews

A warm-hearted tale of puppy love, Scottish director Bill Forsyth's breakthrough hit is a "small movie" in the very best sense of the word. The plot of Gregory's Girl couldn't be simpler. The eponymous hero, a preternaturally pale and lanky Scottish teenager (John Gordon Sinclair) develops a crush on his soccer team's one and only female player (Dee Hepburn). Undeterred by the fact that's she a far better player than he (and every other boy on the team), Gregory proceeds to pursue her with an enthusiasm bordering on the spastic, until a surprise chain of events leads him into the arms of a different girl (Clare Grogan of the band Altered Images). One of the geekiest teens to ever grace the screen, Gregory's absolute lack of self-consciousness sets him apart from the typical adolescent hero. Absent from Gregory's Girl is the social anxiety and cut-throat behavior characteristic of so many American high school comedies. The movie has an air of innocence and gentle humor that make it seem very much of another era, which in fact it is: Watching Gregory's Girl today is to step into an early '80s time-warp complete with feathered hair and Dorothy Hamill 'dos. Much of the pleasure here is in the details, as Forsyth casts a loving eye on the film's Scottish middle-class milieu. The performances are charming and unforced, and the casting of Gregory's gang of gangly, horny pals - a wonderful assortment of the kind of faces that you never see in Hollywood movies - is inspired. Gregory's Girl is a rarity - a coming-of-age film that is genuinely sweet and quirky without ever becoming cloying or sentimental.

Barnes & Noble - Kryssa Schemmerling

The second film by Scottish writer/director Bill Forsyth, Gregory's Girl has all of the gentle charm and quirky, unsentimental emotion (not to mention a befuddled person dressed as a penguin) that most Hollywood teen films lacked in the ensuing two decades. Set in a nondescript Scottish town, Forsyth's tale features a group of teens who actually seem like real people rather than idealized icons as they humorously muddle through the trials of adolescence. Breathing new life into the age-old high school concerns with sports and love, John Gordon Sinclair's gawkily sincere Gregory falls hard for the female athlete Dorothy. Rather than a threat to Gregory's nascent masculinity, Dee Hepburn's Dorothy is an alluringly robust beauty. Gregory's friends and his winningly sagacious kid sister provide breezily eccentric support, while sneakily pretty Clare Grogan proves to Gregory that you can indeed dance while lying on the ground. An award-winning success in the U.K. and deemed "irresistible" by The New York Times, Gregory's Girl became a sleeper hit in the U.S., definitively establishing Forsyth's gift for genial, oddball comedy.

All Movie Guide - Lucia Bozzola