[Closed] Gregory’s Girl

Clare Grogan..... Be still my heart

Yep, it's a bit of a tradition in our house. Whatever you do, give Gregory's Two Girls a miss though, it's dated in all the wrong ways and the opening few minutes are a bit disturbing.

Currently on the iPlayer.

Thanks - I may need to watch it tonight!

Bill Forsyth had some real moments of genius.

I have never seen that film so will have to try to catch that!

We watched it recently. Its still one of my favourite films of all time. A lot of my generation had their first real crush on Clare Grogan! It's still an excellent film and stands up.

Local Hero is another Forsyth film that I love.

Always makes me think Caracas. A place I've never been, a place I'll probably never go and a place I never ever think of at any other time.

Thanks for making me chuckle. 🙂

Oh and: https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/1139193/gregorys-girl-turns-35-where-are-the-cast-now/

a friend of mine lives in the same road as Gordon Sinclair.

edit: or so he told me

Restless Natives from the same era is decent as well

The (male) nipple covering scene still makes me chortle.

Just a really lovely film really.

Another one of those great "classic" films that I've just never watched.

Kids are 18 and 14, guessing it would be uncool to watch with their dad....

Very evocative for me too, especially as we did it as a school play a couple of years later (I was crew not cast!)..

I too always remember Caracas - I would still not know the capital of Venezuela without GG. Also makes me think of Crossroads!!

See also Local Hero.

Restless Natives from the same era is decent as well

I love RN, but it isn't quite as good as the Bill Forsyth films. I watched Local Hero recently and it's a gorgeous film.

Local Hero is good isn’t it - you can just see that Burt Lancaster is having a whale of a time… 😀

Ah, it's good. Is it on again at the moment? excellent. Will download.

Some classic lines, and some really Bill Forsyth throwaway touches (the guy going along the corridor, looking in rooms - c.f. Local Hero for more). Some really odd bits though, as well - the older teachers letching over Dee Hepburn is a bit unsettling (and very much of its time, too).

Restless Natives is a bit more patchy, Local Hero is up there as one of my favourite films, if no top.

Also managed to watch That Sinking Feeling (with some of same cast) and Comfort & Joy (less good) in a nostalgia binge a month or two back.

Ah, Clare Grogan indeed.

I too enjoyed it - we did it as part of English exam course, along with Kes.

I didn't realise that it is same director with Local Hero, another film I really enjoyed.

Clare Grogan indeed.

#swoons

Restless Natives from the same era is decent as well

Now we’re talking, soundtrack by Big Country.

ahh, the ones I was going to mention have been done.
Gregorys girl was brilliant
Local hero, fantastic, some wonderful writing
Restless natives i remember being great as well, superb soundtrack from big country

Try "just a boys game" with Frankie miller and a few other actors you've seen before
I'd imagine other than the shipbuilding disappeared there will be bits of Glasgow still like this play/film

A lot of my generation had their first real crush on Clare Grogan

And then learnt to use a looser grip

IGMC

She still looks great

Another massive fan of Local Hero. The story behind it (including the hiring of Burt Lancaster) is great too.

I lived in that ymca in Cumbernauld when it was filmed
You can see my room window in the film lol

That bit where the teachers are looking out of the staff room window perving over the pupil crossing the playground is a bit disturbing tho...
Grew up in Cumbernauld, a few mates got bit parts in the football team, my parents taught at the school (now demolished)

Gregory's Girl - A wonderful film.

I love the headmaster: Chic Murray.

"Off you go you small boys! "

Smashing film, especially if you're from Cumbernauld from that era. Everyone is either in it or knows someone who was in it.

**I was in the same class as Gregorys little sister and our class all went to a special screening in Cumbernauld Theatre.

haven't watched it for years...its a lovely film, as is local hero (better). GG Evokes a slightly rose tinted memory of my school days.
And I see Claire and altered images are touring and gigging at the trades club in hebden next march....🤔

Found Restless Natives on BBCiplayer

"What about Glen Miller?" 🙂

I lived in that ymca in Cumbernauld when it was filmed
You can see my room window in the film lol

So did I though 8 years later. Pretty certain my room wasn't a million miles away either.

“Got any false tits?”

That’s not the way you spell “Caracus” anyway.

Thanks for heads up OP - it’s about time my daughter saw that gem of a film.

I grew up in Stirling and I'm almost the same age as John Gordon Sinclair so GG is a trip down memory lane for me too. I was Gregory but he had better luck with girls than I did 🙂
Unfortunately for the film our morals have moved on and there's at least one scene where a girl is touched without her permission which would probably be a sexual assault today.

Peter Capaldi's line "That rabbit had a name" in LH is another classic. Also from LH when the farmers are discussing the flash cars they will buy when they sell their farms and one of them decides on a Maserati and another farmer turns to him and says "but you'll never get a pregnant ewe in the back of a Maserati"

Glad to see That Sinking Feeling getting some love and also Just a Boys Game. Classic line from JaBG "Circumstances may alter but the kerry oot bag never wavers."

“Off you go you small boys! ”

One of the great joys of my job as a teacher is that it occasionally offers me opportunities to actually say this. Needless to say I never pass one up.

Peter Capaldi’s line “That rabbit had a name” in LH is another classic.

I drive past the location where the night in the car in the fog was filmed quite often. I only recently realised this having used the road for years. It's just above Loch Tarff on the B862.

Another massive fan of Local Hero. The story behind it (including the hiring of Burt Lancaster) is great too.

Local Hero is a flawless pearl of a film, genuinely up there with the likes of Casablanca.

Did you see the program where Mark Kermode arranged a screening in Pennan for Bill Forsyth?

I love Comfort and Joy which has little of either but is another gem by Forsyth. Also his first film That Sinking Feeling is good.

JaBG - "yer teas oot McCaffery" is another, IIRC.

LH - re the rabbit - "... two names, actually"

I cycled past Pennan on the NE coast last week where local hero was filmed. The gradient on the hill out was 17%!

And if you go to Pennan, you have to take at least one photo

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For anyone on this thread that appreciated Just a Boys Game give Down Among the Big Boys a try. Starring Billy Connolly and a young Douglas Henshall well before his Inspector Jimmy Perez fame

Did you see the program where Mark Kermode arranged a screening in Pennan for Bill Forsyth?

Yeah, it was lovely. Amazing that it was decades before Bill Forsyth watched the film too.

During one of the Kermode interviews, Bill Forsyth explains that the bunny rabbit scene was filmed by a loch between Fort William and Mallaig. Not so, it was actually filmed at Loch Tarff near Fort Augustus.

Watched Restless Natives with Thump last night.

Brilliant film - thanks for the heads up on that.

Then we watched Gregory's Girl (again!).

It gets better every time I watch it.

The scene in the toilet where there's an entire criminal underworld operating had my son in stiches.

Not so, it was actually filmed at Loch Tarff near Fort Augustus.

Yeah, I'd mentioned upthread that I drive past it fairly often and only recently discovered that's where it was filmed.

see also - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51428490

Just watched Restless Natives. Alright, but not as good as GG or LH. It lacked the charm.

If Scotland ever gains independence its national anthem should be the theme to Restless Natives

@LAT Your friend must stay close to my Sister-in-law, as she works with JGS's wife!

Some really odd bits though, as well – the older teachers letching over Dee Hepburn is a bit unsettling (and very much of its time, too).

Unfortunately for the film our morals have moved on and there’s at least one scene where a girl is touched without her permission which would probably be a sexual assault today.

Very much of its time. I remember teachers in the mid 80s perving over 6th form girls fairly openly. Although I haven't seen it, and only found it when I googled Bill Forsyth, I'd be tempted to watch Gregory's Two Girls, the sequel, to see how out of step it was in 1999, never mind now..

Gregory's Two Girls is a 1999 British film, set in Cumbernauld. It is the sequel to Gregory's Girl (1981), which also starred John Gordon Sinclair and was written and directed by Bill Forsyth.[1] The film received mixed reviews.

Eighteen years after the events of Gregory's Girl, Gregory Underwood (Sinclair) – now a 35-year-old English teacher in his former secondary school – has fantasies about 16-year-old student Frances (McKinnon)