Film Forum

(1981) Desperate after an 8-game losing streak, a sexist Glasgow school soccer team coach accepts Dee Hepburn, a hotshot female player (who had to take six weeks of training for the role); and although demoted to goalie, teenage knucklehead John Gordon Sinclair falls hard. Prodded by the advice of smart-mouthed 10-year-old sister Allison Forster, he does make his move, but there’s behind the scenes feminine conspiracies en route. Made on the proverbial shoestring – but turning 64,000 percent profit – delicately painful and hilarious coming of age story. Forsyth’s screenplay won the British Oscar. Voted 30 in the BFI list of 100 greatest British films of the 20^th century. DCP. Approx. 91 min.

A Film Movement Release

Reviews

“It is, by definition, irresistible. This enchanting comedy is one of the cheeriest unsentimental reports on the human condition since François Truffaut's Small Change… Gregory's Girl is a movie with an original, distinct personality. It floats effortlessly over its landscape, seeing all from a marvelously cockeyed perspective all its own.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“Quirky and utterly endearing.”
– Geoff Andrew, Time Out (London)

“One of the most loved British films of all time.”
– Jane Graham, The Guardian