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Gregory’s Girl

£95.00

Film

Gregory’s Girl

Additional information

Year

1981

Size/Type

UK Quad (30" x 40") Single Sided

Country of Origin

UK / British

Condition

Near mint minus – Very fine plus / originally folded (as issued)

Director

Bill Forsyth

Actor/Actress

Clare Grogan, Dee Hepburn, Gordon John Sinclair

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A fantastic feel good UK quad film poster for Bill Forsyth’s 1981 romantic football based comedy “Gregory’s Girl” starring Gordon John Sinclair as the hapless Gregory & Dee Hepburn as his would be girlfriend…Dorothy. This British romantic comedy has gained a certain cult following over the years and has withstood the test of time very well…Genuinely heart warming and a rare find. Originally folded (as issued) this unrestored example displays and presents to excellent effect; bright white background and deep unfaded colours with both leads (Gordon John Sinclair & Dee Hepburn) prominently featured. Hugely popular with a large and loving fan-base the original film poster offered here represents a a very collectable piece of British (well Scottish) movie memorabilia…“there’s a little bit of him in all of us.”

Trivia: To perfect her football skills, Dee Hepburn trained with Partick Thistle football club.

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Film Description

Gregory’s Girl Movie Poster

“In his Scottish New Town home, gangling Gregory and his school-friends are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got into the football team – and is a better player than him. He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of matters here, and that very much includes Gregory’s younger sister.”

One of my favorite things about Gregory’s Girl is that it captures a sort of ‘parentless’ world that further enhances its subtle and sweet adolescent tone. While there are adult characters in the film (most notably the coach, who is himself awkward and hardly authoritative), and while we meet Gregory’s dad briefly, they come off as backdrop, and the overall impression is that this is like a live-action, Scottish, adolescent version of Charles Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ movies, where kids run about on their own seemingly at whim after school, but aren’t necessarily concerned with being full of destructive mischief given that freedom. Indeed, the most mature character in the entire film may be the 10-year-old sister of the main character, and this flip-flop of roles is further illustrated by his sister’s little suitor friend, Richard, acting ever the gentleman even through Gregory’s very funny verbal onslaught.

The contrast between teenage lust/horniness against the innocent and awkward nature of teenage infatuation and the eventual sweetness of the first kiss are spread decidedly toward the latter here. This is not Porky’s or American Pie, despite an opening scene that maybe belongs in that territory. This is a very sensitive movie that treats kids as if they’re real people, and allows for that kernel of dirty-minded lust to exist side-by-side with the fresh and innocent electrical sweetness of young love, and nevertheless avoids seriousness through that sensitivity, and serves each comedic moment up in the most understated and warm way it can. It’s very natural, and it captures best the way adolescence really is: A no-man’s land between being an utter child and becoming an adult.

The director also achieved a great contrast in moods and environments, with the 1970s prog-jazz score and understated sterility of a boxy 1960-70s planned community with its plain institutional nature shown by the modern school and town planning. Somehow, it manages to bring everything about the characters and dialog into relief.

Great acting from a cast of mostly unknowns, a more-or-less aimless story that you don’t want to end, and a lovely look back to a time period that I actually miss make this movie a favorite.

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Mint
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Near Mint
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Very Fine
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Fine
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Good
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Fair
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Poor
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WINDOW CARD
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