Gregory's Girl (1981)

Highly Recommended

UK
Feature Film
Writer/Director: Bill Forsyth
Cinematographer: Michael Coulter
Composer: Colin Tully
Cast: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan, Robert Buchanan, Billy Greenlees, Allan Love, Caroline Guthrie, Carol Macartney, Douglas Sannachan, Allison Forster

Forsyth’s typically and delightfully inconsequential look at the lives of a group of small town Scots teenagers – following, in particular, the awkward and good natured Gregory as he attempts to find his eponymous other half – is a film that seems to get better with each passing year, as its universal themes of sexual awakening, emotional growth, and the capriciousness of adolescent affections and feelings, continue to feel enchantingly truthful and authentic. Iain.Stott