RESOURCES: Classic text revisited... Gregory's Girl Bill Forsyth,1980

These kids are not bad or mad, beautiful or tanned (definitely not tanned).

They're just ordinary lower middle-class kids growing up in a Scottish new town and coming to grips with the modern world.

Those who prefer gritty realism may think the film too soft-centred.

There's no major bullying in this school, no smack-heads and the shopping centre looks relatively clean and fragrant. But it's the stories we tell that are important and this story is, to coin a phrase one youth worker used to me recently to describe her work, "pro-social modelling".

It shows a youthful world where life is liveable, where the best way to be is open and imaginative. Not everyone succeeds, not everyone fits in, not everyone is happy, but the movement of the main characters is towards fulfilment. It hits the mark in its observational humour (what is it about boys and numbers?). And while it has a clean-cut realism, the film - quite literally in the scene where his girl finally gets Gregory - also yearns for the stars. It asserts happiness as a fundamental good. And I don't think we should argue with that.