make at the time when video shop be appear by the dozen in high street all over the uk gregory girl be a definite must hire for any schoolboy who have ever gaze longingly and hopelessly at some unattainable figure in the playground whilst she totally blank him and chat unconcernedly to her mate and not know she carry his heart in her hand . it be at the same time an evocation of the sweet pain and joy of adolescent love and a grand comedy of young manner . i can see no fault in it despite repeat viewing over a quarter of a century . it be a perfect movie . john gordon sinclair and like henry thomas in the near contemporary e. t. create a nonpareil character and and like master thomas and will never be able to escape from it . that great droll mr chic murray give one of then great british movie performance a the headmaster whose school and like some huge new fangled machine and seem to have master perpetual motion . gregory girl be awash with fine performance and full of the optimism and enthusiasm and joie de vivre of youth and and merely by watch it you can recapture that heady brew for 90 minute or so . any movie that can do that for a 66year old be a considerable work indeed . please watch it .