Brennan 0:00
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Christi Dodge 0:17
Welcome back, everybody to this episode of Dodge Movie Podcast. Today we’re going to talk about Gregory’s Girl our last film in our month of Scottish films. I started thinking of February, our last film in this month of Scottish films. Ah, Gregory’s Girl takes place in Scotland, and it was released in 1980. The directors Bill Forsyth, the stars are John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Jake D’Arcy. How do you say that D apostrophe? RC,

Mike Dodge 0:48
I’ve always heard it said Darcy.

Christi Dodge 0:49
Oh, just Darcy, you don’t you don’t kind of emphasis the apostrophe.

Mike Dodge 0:54
That’s just how I’ve heard it pronounced. I don’t know. Okay. You could say D’Arcy

Christi Dodge 0:59
It sounds like a stutter, D’Arcy.

Mike Dodge 1:01
Well, sometimes the apostrophe doesn’t mean a glottal stop. So that would be D’Arcy.

Christi Dodge 1:05
Yeah. No offense to any of our stuttering listeners, right?

Mike Dodge 1:08
Right, or Mike Almandinger, he was a co worker back in the day about a stutter, okay. Or Mel Tillis.

Christi Dodge 1:14
Right. No offense, everybody. We love everybody. Okay, the writer is Bill Forsyth, and it takes place like I said in Scotland. It was filmed in North Lancashire, Scotland, Glasgow and Strathclyde. Strathclyde Gregory’s Girl is about Gregory a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate and he must work to win her affection. The tagline for Gregory’s Girl is this has to be the match of the day. Or what Gregory doesn’t know about women fills a wonderful new comedy.

Mike Dodge 1:47
Okay, I’m not sure it’s a comedy.

Christi Dodge 1:50
And, and this one’s really bad. There’s a little bit of him in all of us.

Mike Dodge 1:55
That sounds a little creepy.

Christi Dodge 1:57
Right? Okay.

Mike Dodge 1:58
Yeah.

Christi Dodge 1:58
So Mike, kick us off. What is the pickup line for this film?

Mike Dodge 2:01
Well, this is actually for our listeners a first, we have no idea what the pickup line is because it’s unintelligible IMDb says that for the American release, they dubbed all the dialogue with accents that were more understandable. I think we got the original version. I think the pickup line is “Where is that?” But we listen to it three separate times in have no clue.

Christi Dodge 2:25
Yep. A first for the Dodge Movie Podcast.

Mike Dodge 2:28
I hope will last?

Christi Dodge 2:30
Well, it definitely steps on one of our features and the podcast.

Mike Dodge 2:34
Right! The director should know that going into it that they need to make sure that the pickup line is intelligible for our podcast listeners.

Christi Dodge 2:41
Absolutely. So the opening has very 80s like late 70s vibey kind of music. Oh, yes. And a very Porky’s feel almost immediately with a group of high school boys hiding in the bushes peeping in the window of a woman, a nurse, I believe who it appears she’s come home from work and she’s taking off her nursing gown, you know, to put on sweats or whatever.

And he’s like, I was a huge, maybe still am but I think I would cringe if I watched Porky’s again, I was a huge fan of Porky’s and that style of of movie I mean, that’s kind of what we were all raised with but watching it with you know, my I don’t know if it’s older or more aware eyes is kind of had a creepy feel to

Mike Dodge 3:27
Oh, I really didn’t get a creepy feel on that portion of Gregory’s Girl. Right.

Christi Dodge 3:32
It’s later in Gregory’s Girl that you got the creepy feel a right.

Mike Dodge 3:35
And maybe this is not strictly the case. Maybe optics isn’t a strong suit of most people. But if you’re at nighttime standing near a window and you’re lit and it’s outside, you don’t put the blinds down. Everybody knows that you’re very well seen. So because of that it didn’t feel like they were being as much creepers because it’s not like they were drilling a hole through the wall all up Porky’s which is a little bit more aggressive.

Christi Dodge 4:01
I see what you’re saying this Porkey’s kids were putting in a little bit more effort. So they were more that’s what made it extra creepy. These boys just happened upon a window where she didn’t draw the blinds. Right? And on her.

Mike Dodge 4:12
I’m not saying it’s over. But if you’re 15 years old, and you’re walking through the park, and you see that you stop.

Christi Dodge 4:19
It’s like finding a $5 bill. You don’t just step over and keep going.

Mike Dodge 4:22
You don’t. But then the person who like pulls your wallet out of your backpack and takes the $5 bill that person’s extra level.

Christi Dodge 4:30
Okay. Okay, good. Thank you for putting it in context.

Mike Dodge 4:33
Oh, you’re welcome.

Christi Dodge 4:34
So, early on in Gregory’s Girl, I struggled within like that first. Because after we see this scene, then we see a scene where they’re playing soccer. And I’m still trying to kind of because I hadn’t read any of the trivia I I kind of go into the movies blind. I don’t read anything ahead of time.

Mike Dodge 4:51
Okay, I’m sorry to interrupt. But yeah, it turns out I went into the movie blind too, even though

Christi Dodge 4:57
Not usually you usually do a little bit of homework. Don’t you?

Mike Dodge 5:00
I recommended Gregory’s Girl because I remember watching Siskel and Ebert’s review of it.

Christi Dodge 5:05
Wow.

Mike Dodge 5:06
And they liked it. And I don’t know why. So, what they described to me in the five minutes they had on their show on Sunday afternoons does not match the movie experience I had.

Christi Dodge 5:19
Yeah, a little insight or what do they say behind the scenes, inside baseball, isn’t there an inside baseball?

Mike Dodge 5:26
There was I think, I don’t know if they’re still in.

Christi Dodge 5:28
So we generally try to pick movies that we have already seen and that we like, and that we want to share with you guys. But then I have pigeon holed us by creating these themes for the month that I it are kind of pigeon holed.

Mike Dodge 5:40
I like it. It’s kind of fun

Christi Dodge 5:42
It’s kind of it’s fun. It helps us, you know, just I don’t know, it’s just fun. So we then had to find five, because January has five weeks, so we even had to find one more than normal movies that were Scottish.

Mike Dodge 5:55
Well. And we can blame the English for this because there’s quite a few Scottish films that are really rough to sit through for me because there’s been a lot of atrocities over the years, which have been then recounted in films. So for example, Braveheart and Rob Roy are two famous films about Scottish things which are not really in my wheelhouse right there.

Christi Dodge 6:15
We prefer comedies a little light hearted, right? If there’s enough negativity in the world, we don’t want to add to it.

Mike Dodge 6:22
Yeah, if you don’t have enough negativity, I’m fairly sure you can find some more, but we’re trying to be positive on our podcast.

Christi Dodge 6:28
So I’m gonna apologize right now, because this film and the next film we weren’t big fans of, but we’re going to talk about it until you guys about it, and hopefully entertain you for the next few minutes. But I was trying to get my wits about me and I was trying to figure out is this kid high school kid is this kid just a young 20 something in this is like a club league. And in that we see them playing soccer, then they go into the dressing room, and this man comes in, and he appears to be older than Gregory. But I still can’t tell is he another player is he?

Mike Dodge 6:59
And this is on? I’m gonna say wardrobe, because he’s got the kind of mustache that a 15 year old has very light very. So with his short stature and that mustache? We’re not sure. Is he the soccer coach? Which he is? Or is he another student? We really don’t know who this guy is. And so it is a little weird with his interaction. He’s yelling at the players.

Christi Dodge 7:23
But when he talks to Gregory, he’s almost talking as if he’s asking permission. And so maybe that’s the funny part is it sets up for us that he’s not in charge. He’s not a coach. He’s basically it’s almost like he’s asking Gregory for permission to cut a player. And then he kind of goes, Oh, yeah, and that player is you. So was that supposed to be the comedy that he wasn’t a coach that just said, Gregory, you’re not performing? I’m gonna need to cut you.

Mike Dodge 7:52
This is the film struggle a little bit in this realm. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, because then later, when the girl is going to be on the team, and the headmaster or principal, his boss, says something to him, he’s like, Oh, no, we’re gonna have a girl on the team.

Don’t worry about it. So that he did not that character didn’t carry through that, that that stammering kind of thing. Now, I have to say, I really did like the opening bit to show us about Gregory when they had lost the game. That person who we find out as a coach yells at him eight games in a row, you’ve lost.

Gregory cheerfully says, well, we can’t lose them all. This, of course, harkens back to an episode, which I do not believe I’ve talked about on the podcast. Sergio Risty, was a fellow I went to high school with. Before the last game of the football season, my football team had lost the last six games in a row. Sergio is about to start soccer the Monday after this game.

He was kicking the soccer ball around with the soccer team because they’d already started. The overly aggressive roid rage, safety Captain Person of the football team runs over, grabs the ball from and says, What are you doing? Sergio says, I’m playing soccer with the guys gonna play soccer within a week.

The captain kicks the soccer ball away and says, What if I told you that you couldn’t play tomorrow, Friday night in the football game? And Sergio looks at him and says, “Oh, well.” So that very much captured what I felt Gregory’s perspective on this soccer football, as they might say, match was just kind of Oh, well. And that was his approach to life.

The plot of this film felt unfinished to me, because I never understood why in the first half of the film, he was obsessed with a girl who’s playing soccer, which made sense. Elizabeth Shue and Karate Kid. She’s an attractive girl who does the thing that you like to do? I mean, that makes tons of sense. Then through some machinations that I didn’t follow other girls set Gregory up with a different girl, and we never see or hear of the first girl again. Makes no sense to me.

Christi Dodge 9:57
Well, and I believe that It’s been a few weeks since we watch this, that the girl who they set her up with looked remarkably like the girl that played soccer. And so I think for us, we were kind of like, is that that girl? Is that the same girl? Is that a different girl?

Mike Dodge 10:13
Yeah. And there is an interim girl that they used to bridge him from soccer girl to this other girl. And, again, they didn’t show us any of the the dialogue that would have maybe explained that in exposition. So that, like I said, it felt unfinished. And kind of without resolution. I’m not exactly sure what journey Gregory went on. Did he just kind of fell into a girlfriend? What’s, what’s the message here? I don’t know.

Christi Dodge 10:40
Right? It was kind of all over the map. Maybe this is just I was, you know, early 80s was kind of your first latchkey kids at early on, it looked almost like Gregory lived by himself. Because in the opening scenes, we never saw a mother or a father. We did see his father briefly. I don’t want to step on your driving review. But his father is a driving instructor and his student is driving down the road and they see Gregory and he’s crossing the road and he lingers.

He doesn’t just shoot across like perpendicularly to the road, he kind of does this really long angle, putting himself in front of the car even longer. The father doesn’t react like Oh, my God, you know, turn to the right, like Don’t hit my kid. It was just like, he just sits there doesn’t really, you know.

Mike Dodge 11:27
Please know that the driving student in that scene was an adult, right? Whereas here in the US, we’re pretty comfortable, at least on the West Coast, right? With driving students being almost invariably 16 year olds, apparently, in Scotland cars were too expensive, or people didn’t have a need or something I don’t know. I also think it set up without us knowing it. So it didn’t kind of land but I think the intent there was to show that his father didn’t really care that much about Gregory because he almost let a student run him over. Because he knows it’s his son, right?

He’s like, making fun of him. He lets the guy drive at him and almost hit him. Then they have this interaction was his father says, you know, I’d like to see you like maybe we could have meet at eight o’clock for breakfast. So there’s definitely something going on in that family. But it’s not really explained. So we see a sister who is played by an actress named Alison Forster. She has no other IMDb credits, which is a shame because I feel like she stole this film. She was awesome. A little sister. You mentioned latchkey kids, these two, this boy and this girl appeared live on their own. Yeah, that’s what the no supervision.

Christi Dodge 12:40
Did we ever see a mother?

Mike Dodge 12:41
Nope. didn’t even hear about her.

Christi Dodge 12:43
Right. So it was just and they’re living almost in, like a little courtyard or bungalows or something.

Mike Dodge 12:49
And so decent housing for being broke kids?

Christi Dodge 12:52
Well, decent, but yet it looks like low income housing in a way for an adult it would be but as kids, how would you possibly swing and there are a ton of kids like there’s a scene the next morning when he’s walking to school? And I started to think, Oh, is that like a preschool who are taking all the kids out for a walk because there’s like 15 toddlers and not one adult in view?

Mike Dodge 13:14
No, I don’t know for sure. But I think one of the toddlers was smoking cigarettes.

Christi Dodge 13:18
It’s a rough, the 80s were rough. And then to continue kind of the very 80s kind of film, there’s a scene with the players all standing in a line and the coach is talking to them and kind of he’s acting more coach like in this scene. They’re dollying probably down the line of people. One of them is literally picking their nose. So it gave me a very Bad News Bears kind of feel like he has this ragtag group of players and he’s just hoping against all hope that they could win something. I think that’s why it’s the 80s. Girls on a boy team wasn’t a thing. And he is nervous yet she has skills. He’s like, Hmm, maybe we could use her on the team.

Mike Dodge 14:07
However, later on, there’s a scene where pornstache soccer coach goes into the locker room where it’s just him and the girl. Oh, and that really gave me lots of creepy vibes. That’s the scene. That’s the scene that gave me creepy.

Christi Dodge 14:21
Well, yeah, that’s all I’m asking. Is that is that the senior referencing earlier?

Mike Dodge 14:24
Yeah, that’s the worst that really, again, maybe in the 80s. It played different that there is a different sensibility and no one really noticed but for me that I can’t, I’m thinking as a director, if I make that film today, people are gonna assume I’m setting up some sort of molestation of some sort.

Christi Dodge 14:43
Right? Yeah, yeah, that’s true. So they are practicing soccer and he is clumsily working on some calisthenics and he’s running and he runs into her and she is expertly you know, juggling the ball and they kind of cross cut between the two of them just to set up what a just clumsy boob he kind of is and how skilled she is. And he’s clumsy yet everything like earlier in the film to kind of set that up. He’s right after at the very beginning in that scene, when we see him in the locker room, he puts deodorant on but he puts it on his shirt,

Mike Dodge 15:19
The outside of the shirt, he put on this dress shirt, and then he puts the roll on deodorant on the cloth on the shirt.

Christi Dodge 15:25
And so it’s just kind of the you know, that’s a very show don’t tell him we’re going to show you how kind of inept Gregory is.

Mike Dodge 15:32
My joke would be funnier if I could think of a really classic Scottish name but this is Napoleon Dynamite for Scotland.

Christi Dodge 15:38
It is yeah, that’s a good that’s a good there’s there’s another part that made me squirm a little bit. There’s two men one obviously much older than the other and I believe they’re doing some groundskeeping and the teacher sees them.

Mike Dodge 15:54
Oh, these are the window washers.

Christi Dodge 15:56
Oh, that’s what they’re doing there.

Mike Dodge 15:58
Yeah, this is this is also insanely inappropriate.

Christi Dodge 16:01
This is your Mary Kay LeTourneau warning. The teacher flirts with basically the younger boy who is a former student, he looks like he just graduated or could still be going to the school. And she literally says why don’t you come up and see me sometime?

Mike Dodge 16:18
Yes, literally those words of dialogue.

Christi Dodge 16:21
Which is like what is happening just blatantly in front of students and and then his boss.

Mike Dodge 16:27
The other part that goes into the “ewww” category is there is a kid who works for presumably the yearbook. Who is selling photos of the soccer girl in the boys bathroom. And I would say that is unrealistic except for the fact that one of the students in my high school not Sergio Resti, but his name will remain unspoken did the same thing. He was the kid who worked for the yearbook. He had the the telephoto lens to take pictures of the girls sometimes up their sktirts and he print them.

So the behavior is is I think, believable for a teenager. But it is weird. Now there’s parts of a lot of this film that don’t make any sense to me. There’s a penguin, someone into a penguin costume who keeps being told to go to a different classroom? No clue what that means. There is a bit in the middle of the film, I think about 40 minutes in where there’s like, a couple of I think young girls that has no bearing on the plot. They never were in there before or showed up again.

Christi Dodge 17:34
Yeah, my notes say the B plot of the grade school kids question mark question was like, I don’t even remember.

Mike Dodge 17:41
It was hard for me to follow.

Christi Dodge 17:43
Yeah, this one was, this one was all over the map.

Mike Dodge 17:46
It was.

Christi Dodge 17:47
I do love the relationship between him and his sister. They go to the park and they’re on the merry go round. And his sister’s giving him advice on how he better take care of himself if he’s going to fall in love.

Mike Dodge 18:00
Yes. Now, there are a couple of movie tie-ins that I did enjoy. There’s three.

Christi Dodge 18:07
Lay em’ on me.

Mike Dodge 18:07
The first one is at one point, he says a character I should say says crying himself to sleep over that, which reminded me of Mike Myers and So I Married an Axe Murderer earlier this month, with his crying himself to sleep comment. So apparently Scots worry a lot about crying themselves to sleep. I blame the English. The second one is she says Saturday nights are special, which I believe is an allusion to the Bay City Rollers Saturday night, which is of course a very famous song. The third is the actor who plays the soccer coach Jake D’Arcy was also in what we did on our holiday, which we talked about recently. One of the confusing things involved food. What was it again?

Christi Dodge 18:50
So I think it’s when it goes out with the interim girl.

Mike Dodge 18:53
Yeah, I think interim girl

Christi Dodge 18:55
They go to a little like almost looks like a convenience store slash malt shop, kind of and she asked for a ginger beer. And when I get ginger beer, it basically looks like ginger ale. But what showed up in front of her was like this neon green milkshake. And I was just like what? In Scotland ginger beer means something else apparently.

Mike Dodge 19:15
Another thing that made no sense to me was they practice and play their soccer games on a dirt field adjacent to a grass field. Why couldn’t you play on the grass?

Christi Dodge 19:28
That’s funny. So in the creepy category, there’s a scene that that both of us could not figure out what it meant it bared, bore nothing on the plot or the story is the coach is showing her how to use her bum to kind of stop a ball with her butt.

Mike Dodge 19:47
Oh, yeah, that’s in the locker room. Yeah, super inappropriate.

Christi Dodge 19:51
It was like, what? and then it just like went to him and his sister or something. It was just it did not make any sense. I did like when he’s waiting. So he asks the soccer player girl out and she says yes. And she agrees to meet him. I believe it was at two o’clock. So we see Gregory and he is all cleaned up. His sister’s coached him on how to get cute.

And he’s under this giant clock on the wall. Like literally, they probably like three feet in diameter. Audibly we hear, tick, tick, tick, to emphasize like that she’s late. And there’s just this uncomfortable silence except for the ticking. We start to realize like, Oh, I think he got stood up. Like we got excited that you know, the….

Mike Dodge 20:36
Except that when the like, not even interim girl, but the intercessor shows up to tell him that soccer girl is not coming. My immediate thought was how would that girl know? So I believe the implication was that they also went to soccer girl and said, Gregory’s not coming because they’re trying to make room for their friend, except show us that scene, Mr. Forsythe that the absence of that scene confused you?

Christi Dodge 21:05
And so then it’s funny because they go for a little walk, She says, “Let’s go for a walk” and then go for a little walk. And she sees one of those very stereotypical kind of London phone booth, the red, you know, kind of with the windows, and she goes just a second and she goes into change her clothes. It was like Superman, and she comes out and she’s gotten down like a tank top. She’s a little not quite sluty, but just a little more racy, and he’s new, and he’s like, cover yourself up.

Mike Dodge 21:32
Right? It was amazing. That whole kind of Ocean’s 11, you know, activity to try to get this dork with this other girl game didn’t establish a motivation for why those girls who go to that much effort.

Christi Dodge 21:49
Right, yeah.

Mike Dodge 21:51
Including a costume change.

Christi Dodge 21:52
Exactly. So then he agrees to go out on a date, and they decided to go to the Country Park. And as they’re walking through the park, you observed that his dumb buddies walk through every scene, they were at the chips, because they went to a chip shop to get chips. And they were at the park and you said they are Scotland’s Jay and Silent Bob. Only this time, the tall skinny one is the quiet one. And the shorter one is the one that talks all the time.

Mike Dodge 22:19
If I was quicker, I would have said Jamie and Silent Robbie.

Christi Dodge 22:22
But it’s still funny. It’s still funny. Yeah,

Mike Dodge 22:25
Yeah. Now that I think about it, though, the Silent Bob could be wearing a kilt. Nah, I think we could do this. I’ll have to think about more.

Christi Dodge 22:32
So this is where maybe the filmmaker was trying to be a little creative. Gregory has the girl lay on her back they’re both on their back at the at the park and they’re looking up and he says now dance. And they basically start dancing. While both looking straight up at the sky. The cameras spins slowly to end up on like a Dutch till and I wrote in my notes. What is going on here?

Mike Dodge 22:58
Yeah, were we supposed to think they were high?

Christi Dodge 23:02
And it turns to dusk, and they’re still dancing on their back and I get like kind of in a Garden State kind of way I could see like a Zooey Deschanel suggesting some back dancing. That sounds like a euphemism for something but but do it for hours on end. I think I would grow tired of the back dancing.

Mike Dodge 23:23
Yeah, I think you’re thinking of mattress dancing, which is a different thing. But from my own past, right, I did one time take a girl on a date where I could afford nothing beyond the free water at a restaurant. Yeah. So I could see how especially because as we’ve established the English have taken the Scott so you know, and this construct poor especially in the 80s. Right.

So we had no money, so I totally got him going to the park. What I didn’t understand is he was in his friends borrowed white jacket. And he’s dancing on the grass. It seems like I mean, from my time rolling around on the grass playing sport or whatever. It would be just destroyed and his friend would be very angry. Who by the way, is a great cook. They’ve established. This, one friend, which is accurate because apparently, some of the best chefs in Britain come from Scotland for some reason.

Christi Dodge 24:17
I love it. How you went to the door of the principal and was like what kind of pastries would you like tomorrow?

Mike Dodge 24:22
Yeah, he’s a hustler.

Christi Dodge 24:24
Yeah, so he ends up kissing the neighbor. Any reports the date to his sister. And then we see our Jay and Bob are Scottish. Jay and Bob. Hiking to Caracas. Yes. And then we actually do see Dorothy again. She’s running at night. You know like dip to black.

Mike Dodge 24:42
Yeah, she’s running in full dark there in street lamps back then right by herself. No reflective gear. No pepper spray. How she lived long enough to get back to the to the house or dorms I don’t know.

Christi Dodge 24:56
Well and it made us very nervous because I do believe it went on for like a couple of cuts so right and it was just like something is going to happen to her.

Mike Dodge 25:04
Other movies made in 80s when someone, when she ran through Central Park like that she wouldn’t live to the end of the movie. Right that that was a very obvious.

Christi Dodge 25:13
Yeah. So odd film, odd film.

Mike Dodge 25:16
It was an odd film not sure what Siskel and Ebert were thinking.

Christi Dodge 25:18
Do we have any head trauma?

Mike Dodge 25:20
We do. In fact, at 36:30, the teacher throws a book at the student who’s reading Shakespeare.

Christi Dodge 25:26
Oh, that’s right. The teacher who then hit on the window cleaning student. Yes. Great example of higher education in Scotland, apparently. And do we get a smoochy? By him?

Mike Dodge 25:39
Smoochy smoochy smoochy? At one hour, 24 minutes, 22 seconds. Gregory kisses Susan, after she walks him home. And Susan is the replacement girl.

Christi Dodge 25:51
Right? And I did kind of allude to a driving review. But did you have anything else to add?

Mike Dodge 25:57
Well, there’s just two little bits of trivia the 1980, Talbot, Alpine, that is the car that his father is letting a guy try to run him down in has a proper elecard On the back, which is nice, good attention to detail from the props, people. And then totally bizarre, but in the background, there’s a VW bug with flames on it. But they’re obviously been painted on with a rattle can not with real paint. And so I said Are they trying to tell us that this is how poor This neighborhood is that they want the flames but they can’t afford a paint jobs. So they just do it themselves? I don’t know. It was really an odd touch.

Christi Dodge 26:34
I bet that that they were just too poor to do it. Yeah, yeah. So we go into the numbers?

Mike Dodge 26:38
Let’s go to the numbers.

Christi Dodge 26:39
All right. This movie was made for 200,000 pounds in 1980. So I did not do the math of what that would be for today’s dollars. The IMDb score is 7.1 on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics actually they agreed with Siskel and Ebert. They gave it a 95% yet the audience agreed more with us, I think, and giving it 81% still higher than maybe I would give it Yeah, it’s an hour and a half. It’s rated PG now. That’s probably like a 1980. PG.

Mike Dodge 27:10
Yeah, so there’s full on legitimate naked boobies in this film, so I’m not sure if we’ll get PG today.

Christi Dodge 27:16
No, it has to be at least PG 13. Yeah, it’s a teen comedy. We paused it twice once to talk about the accents being dubbed and then once to grab the pickup many times to grab the pickup line. The opening weekend they got 4000 and sadly didn’t do much better the rest of the time because worldwide this movie made $7,000 or pounds, probably maybe dollars. I don’t know. It did win the BAFTA for screenplay and the London critics film Circle Award for special achievement. So a few people liked it.

Mike Dodge 27:50
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Christi Dodge 27:53
Can’t win them all.

Mike Dodge 27:54
They cannot be winners.

Christi Dodge 27:55
Well, we hope that we have entertained you for the last half hour in talking about Gregory’s Girl. Now I did run into somebody who saw this, as well as Wrestless Natives. So it was not like I had never heard of this movie before. But there was other people

Mike Dodge 28:11
So that viewer gets their cinema file merit badge.

Christi Dodge 28:16
Totally. I had never heard of this movie. So there we go. Alright, everybody. Join us next week when we kick off Made In Oregon movies. We’ve got four of those for you actually, technically five. But more about that next time. Follow us on all of our social medias. We’re on Facebook, we’re on Instagram, Dodge Media Productions is the handle on most of those and like us review us. We are two reviews away from y’all getting to see Mike and his kilt. So if that happens by this airing that will be on those social media so you’re gonna want to follow all of those handles as they say. And never forget,

Mike Dodge 28:58
Dodges never stop and neither do the movies.

Brennan 29:00
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