I can't add much to the great comments already on here and I will not bore you with anecdotes about growing up in Cumbernauld. What I will say though is that as a teenager, on the first couple of viewings, I lost interest after Carol turns up instead of Dorothy to tell Gregory she's not coming. I was not happy. I thought, "How could she do that to Gregory/me?" I could not enjoy the rest of the movie and could not care less that Gregory got to parade around with 3 other cute lassies.. I guess though that says more about me at that time than anything else.I'm much better now.Gregory and Susan for ever.Magic

Made at the time when video shops were appearing by the dozen in high streets all over the UK "Gregory's Girl" was a definite "must hire" for any schoolboy who had ever gazed longingly and hopelessly at some unattainable figure in the playground whilst she totally blanks him and chats unconcernedly to her mates,not knowing she carries his heart in her hands.It is at the same time an evocation of the sweet pain and joy of adolescent love and a grand comedy of young manners. I can see no fault in it despite repeated viewings over a quarter of a century.It is a perfect movie. John Gordon Sinclair,like Henry Thomas in the near - contemporary "E.T." created a nonpareil character,and like Master Thomas,will never be able to escape from it. That great droll Mr Chic Murray gives one of then great British movie performances as the Headmaster whose school,like some huge new - fangled machine,seems to have mastered perpetual motion. "Gregory's Girl" is awash with fine performances,full of the optimism and enthusiasm and joie de vivre of youth and,merely by watching it you can recapture that heady brew for 90 minutes or so.Any movie that can do that for a 66year old is a considerable work indeed.Please watch it.

This is one of the only teen films I've seen from Britain, and quite a good one. Gregory (BAFTA nominated John Gordon Sinclair) is the typical Scottish geeky virgin who along with his friends are starting to find out about girls. Soon enough he fancies Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), particularly because she has joined his football team, oh, he's the goalkeeper, and she is a much better player than him and the others. He eventually asks her out, but the females are pretty much in charge, and that includes his young sister Madeline (Allison Forster). It is weird when towards the end Gregory turns his attention to another girl, but it is still a good film. Also starring Jake D'Arcy as Phil Menzies, Clare Grogan as Susan, Robert Buchanan as Andy, Billy Greenlees as Steve, Alan Love as Eric, Caroline Guthrie as Carol, Carol Macartney as Margo, Douglas Sannachan as Billy, Chic Murray as Headmaster, Alex Norton as Alec, John Bett as Alistair and Graham Thompson as Charlie. It won the BAFTA for Best Screenplay, and it was nominated for Best Direction for Bill Forsyth and Best Film. It was number 41 on The 50 Greatest British Films, and it was number 25 on The 50 Greatest Comedy Films. Good!

A lot of so called comedies get one or two big laughs in the whole film, often by reaching down for a reference to one or another substance that comes from the human body. Gregory's Girl makes me laugh every few seconds, and the only mention of a bodily excretion I can remember is Andy's "chat up line" in the school cafeteria: "Did you know that when you sneeze, it comes out of your nose at a 100 miles an hour?" Even though I thought I knew all the funny bits after seeing it so many times, each viewing finds me laughing at things I hadn't noticed before, as well as at all the other bits that never seem to grow stale.There's the occasional Pythonesque line, as the football coach's description of the "two basic skills" of a goal scorer: "Ball control, shooting accuracy, and the ability to read the game." But Forsyth the writer creates a constant stream of little gems that are very much his own style of wry humour, taking real life and stretching it just that little bit further, but not so far that it's no longer recognisable. He's got teenage life down perfectly. Girls talk, plan, and seem to know what they want. Guys are clueless. Guys are obsessed by numbers. But girls know all the best ones.It's fun to see how comic setups and situations from Gregory's Girl come back in Forsyth's Local Hero ("everyone's second favourite film", as Mark Kermode put it), deeper and more fully developed. Despite the dated fashions and soundtrack, highly recommended.