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Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
John Gordon Sinclair
- Gregory
- (as Gordon John Sinclair)
Billy Greenlees
- Steve
- (as William Greenlees)
Dave Anderson
- Gregory's Dad
- (as David Anderson)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe chip shop that Gregory and Carol go to is called Capaldi's, it was owned by a member of the family of actor Peter Capaldi.
- GoofsWhen the small girl tells Gregory Dorothy would like to see him in room nine at break time, after combing his hair he proceeds to room 39 and there she is.
- Alternate versionsSome prints feature an alternative soundtrack re-recorded by the original actors using softer Scottish accents. Various DVD and Blu-ray releases feature both dialogue tracks as an option.
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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.
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.
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- May 21, 2006
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- Дівчина Грегорі
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- Gross US & Canada
- $7,710
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,185
- Oct 6, 2019
- Gross worldwide
- $7,710
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