Gregory's Girl

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

A new 2K restoration of the second feature from the director of Local Hero, Bill Forsyth. Sixteen year old Gregory is an awkward, gangly Scottish lad who is in the midst of the throngs of puberty. The object of his affection is Dorothy, despite or in part because she is a talented striker who took his place on the school's boys' football team, he now demoted to distracted goalkeeper. Gregory tries to insinuate himself as much as possible in her life through her interests, such as learning the Italian language, without ever directly coming out and telling her that he likes her. Gregory's male friends are of no help in advising him on how to get into a relationship with Dorothy. The only person with whom he confides that provides any constructive advice is his ten-year old sister, Madeline. When Gregory finally gets the nerve to ask Dorothy out on a date, the outcome of the question is not quite what he expects. He learns that Dorothy talks to her girlfriends about such issues as much as Gregory does with his friends, each side strategizing to their own desired end.

directed by: Bill Forsyth
starring: John Gordon Sinclair, Clare Grogan, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Allison Forster
1980 / 91 min / 1.85:1 / English Stereo

Additional info:

• Region Free Blu-ray
• 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