Gregory’s Girl(2019)

Storyline

• In this warm Scottish coming-of-age film, gangly teen Gregory and his schoolmates are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got onto the football team (and is a better player than he). 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. — Jeremy Perkins {J-26} Gregory is an awkward, gangly Scottish 16-year-old in the midst of puberty. The object of his affection is Dorothy, in part because she is a talented striker who took his place on their school's boys' football team, demoting him to distracted goalkeeper. He tries to insinuate himself into her life as much as possible through her interests, such as learning Italian, without directly telling her that he likes her. Gregory's male friends are no help in advising him on how to get into a relationship with Dorothy. The only person in whom he confides that provides any constructive advice is his 10-year-old sister Madeline. When Gregory finally works up the nerve to ask Dorothy out, he doesn't get the answer he expects. He learns that Dorothy talks to her girl friends about such issues as much as Gregory does with his friends, each side strategizing to their own desired end. — Huggo The very real struggles of Scottish teenage life and romance are portrayed through the main storyline of Gregory, a physically and socially awkward young man who blissfully bounces through life until the day he falls in love with Dorothy, a girl who could very well displace him from the school football team. Interesting subplots involving Gregory's friends, Dorothy's friends, and Gregory's younger sister, are tightly interwoven into this coming-of-age football jersey. — mrty-60594