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Gregory's Girl (1981)

Gregory's Girl poster
Directed by
Bill Forsyth
Genre
teen film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 148 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A clumsy teenage boy develops a crush on a new girl who joins the school soccer team. He fumbles through awkward attempts to get her attention with help from his friends.

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What happens

Gregory's Girl is a 1980 Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan. The film is set in and around a state secondary school in the Abronhill district of Cumbernauld. Gregory's Girl was ranked No. 30 in the British Film Institute's list of the top 100 British films of the 20th century, and No. 29 on Entertainment Weekly's 2015 list of the 50 best high school movies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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