Gregory’s Two Girls (1999) – Nostalgia Central

20 years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl in Gregory’s Girl (1981), Greg Underwood (John Gordon Sinclair) is back at his old school. He’s now 35 and teaching English, but in many ways, he has never grown up.

Two very different women come into his life: 16-year-old Frances (Carly McKinnon) is inspired by his rants against human rights abuses, while fellow teacher Bel (Maria Doyle Kennedy) is more interested in the passion he inspires in her.

When Frances and her friend Douglas (Hugh McCue) uncover evil practices at a local factory, she wants her teacher to help expose the wrongdoer – who just happens to be Greg’s old school friend, Fraser (Dougray Scott), now a millionaire tycoon with a philanthropic sideline exporting reconditioned computers to the third world.

Frances and Doug have discovered, though, that Fraser is making torture equipment for Africa, and Frances wants Gregory to help them reveal the story.

Trapped between his idealism and breaking the law while trying to choose between a schoolgirl and a full-grown woman, Greg – the armchair idealist and masturbatory fantasist – still has some growing up to do.

The same Cumbernauld streets, the bridge, and the chip shop made famous in the original movie are all there. For all that, it’s a terrible sequel –  but a modestly watchable (if forgettable) low-budget drama/comedy in its own right.

Gregory Underwood
John Gordon Sinclair
Frances
Carly McKinnon
Headmaster
John Murtagh
Douglas
Hugh McCue
Fraser Rowan
Dougray Scott
Dimitri
Martin Schwab
Bel
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Norman
Alexander Morton
Jan
Dawn Steele
Jon
Kevin Anderson
Maddy Underwood
Fiona Bell
Mr McCance
Gary Lewis
Headmaster’s Secretary
Anne Kidd
Detective Gorrie
Matt Costello
Detective Ritchie
Jane Stabler
Assistant Headmaster
Stewart Preston
Joyce
Anne Marie Timoney
Deere
Jonathan Hackett
Telfor
Bruce Byron
Rowan’s Bodyguards
Marc Caraplet
Jim Creighton

Director
Bill Forsyth