Angry Young Men: The new Scottish gangland comedy made on a shoestring budget
It has been six years in the making, with a budget of just a few thousand pounds, a cast with next to no previous acting experience and a self-taught filmmaker.
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It has been six years in the making, with a budget of just a few thousand pounds, a cast with next to no previous acting experience and a self-taught filmmaker.
It has been six years in the making, with a budget of just a few thousand pounds, a cast with next to no previous acting experience and a self-taught filmmaker.
BBC News By Steven Brocklehurst image copyrightAlamy image captionDee Hepburn played Dorothy, the school football team's star striker and object of Gregory's affection Hardly a day goes by without somebody asking Clare Grogan to quote a line from Gregory's Girl, the teenage romantic comedy set in a Scottish new town which became an unlikely hit when it was released 40 years ago this week. "Sometimes they ask me if I can lie down in a bank of grass and dance," says Grogan, who was just 18 when she filmed that scene in the film four decades ago. Grogan, whose career also included huge success a...