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1981 |
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SPORTS
RITES-OF-PASSAGE
ROMANCE
COMEDY
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91 |
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An awkward schoolboy adolescent (John Gordon Sinclair, pictured right) becomes comically infatuated with a female football-player (Dee Hepburn. Gets result, but only with late substitutE (Clare Grogan, left).
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| A uniquely charming comedy on an ultra-low budget by Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth, with a hilarious performance by Sinclair. All about the pain of adolescence, it’s cruel and kind, knowing and innocent, realistic but magical at the same time. |
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, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy
(LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE SPECIAL AWARD)