The film opens with Georgia (Groome) on her way to a fancy dress party. She and her friends have to decided to dress up as hors d'oeuvres in an attempt to be original, and so Georgia's costume is a green stuffed olive. She enters the party and realises that her friends have opted out and dressed as angels and devils, and everyone starts laughing at her. She runs home upset, and vows to stop behaving like a child and try to get a boyfriend. Soon after this it is the first day of school and we are introduced to Georgia's best friends: Jas (Eleanor Tomlinson), Ellen (Manjeeven Grewal) and Rosie (Georgia Henshaw). While at school, the girls spot two new brothers that have just moved to Eastbourne from London called Robbie (Aaron Johnson) and Tom (Sean Bourke). The girls spy on the boys, who are exploring Eastbourne with their friend Dave the Laugh (Tommy Bastow), in an attempt to find out more about them.
Jas and Georgia hatch a plan, and decide to hang out at Robbie and Tom's organic fruit and vegetable shop in order to get to know them. Jas decides that she likes Tom best, while Georgia falls for Robbie as he shares her fondness of cats. Robbie and Georgia share a moment until they are interrupted by Georgia's mum who walks into the store and ruins their plan, reminding Georgia that she hates organic food and that the fruit Georgia selected gives her wind. Georgia, already humiliated, then sees Robbie with her arch rival, Wet Lindsay and becomes even more determined to charm him. She then realises she has the "Angus Advantage" - she and Robbie share a love for cats, so in order for him to like her instead, she pretends that Angus has gone missing. She then appeals to Robbie to help her find him. However, while Jas is waiting in the park with Angus for Georgia to "find" him after she and Robbie have spent the day looking together, she is distracted by Tom playing football and accidentally lets Angus go. When Georgia and Robbie are looking for Angus they start bonding, but when they find Jas and Tom in the park with Angus, he has to leave to meet up with Lindsay.
The Ace Gang decide to find out what Lindsay has that Georgia doesn't by spying on her. They find out that she wears a thong and chicken fillets in her bra to make her boobs look bigger. Meanwhile, Georgia's dad has been offered a promotion but the job is in New Zealand and so he must go over there to decide whether he want to take the job. During his absence, Georgia's mum hires a handsome builder called Jem to re-do the living room, and begins to spend increasingly longer periods of time with him, making Georgia worried as to the state of her parents marriage. In an attempt to "grow up" for Robbie, Georgia then goes to have "snogging lessons" with Peter Dyer (Liam Hess) who remarks that she is his best student ever. He eventually becomes infatuated with her and at a party the following night, he tries to kiss her and as she pulls away they fall in a bush on top of each other, just as Robbie, Tom, Jas and Lindsay walk past. She is humiliated by Lindsay who laughs at her big knickers, and Robbie looks disappointed. Jas then invites Georgia to go swimming with her, Tom and Robbie to try and make amends with Robbie as Jas knows Lindsay would not be there. However Georgia declares to Jas that she has a huge problem, and so covers herself with a big towel and manages to jump in the pool when Robbie is not looking. Georgia and Robbie play flirtatiously, however while doing handstands in the water, Robbie realises Georgia has put too much fake tan on her legs and it has gone bright orange and streaked. Robbie and Georgia laugh it off together and Robbie kisses Georgia. He says that he has to go and sort some things out but he will call her later.
While Georgia anxiously awaits the call from Robbie, Peter Dyer comes to her door bearing flowers in an attempt to apologise for the incident in the bush. Georgia keeps making excuses as to why they cannot go out and eventually declares to him she is a lesbian. Gobsmacked and heartbroken, he tells Dave the Laugh, who asks Georgia if this is true. She tells him it isn't, prompting him to invite her to a gig for Robbie's band, the Stiff Dylans. Georgia is reluctant at first, however when Robbie does not call her she begins to consider. Georgia is still very upset about the situation as she thinks that Robbie no longer likes her. When Georgia's mum sees her crying, she decides to have a womanly chat with her and gives her a copy of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus". Georgia explains to the Ace Gang that in the book, it says that in order to make a boy jealous you need to use the elastic band theory: boys are at first really close, then they are distant and need space and the minute they think they might have lost you they ping back, like an elastic band. Georgia decides to use this plan for the gig by bringing Dave the Laugh with her in an attempt to make Robbie jealous. It works, and Robbie tries to go to talk to Georgia but is stopped by Lindsay. However, at the end of the date, Dave leans in to kiss Georgia and she is forced to reject him. He leaves, clearly upset.
At school, Dave finds out that Georgia was only using him to make Robbie jealous and so stops talking to her. Robbie also finds out that she used Dave the Laugh and because they are good friends, also stops talking to Georgia. When she finds out it was Jas that leaked this information, they have an argument, and they vow never to speak to each other again. Feeling like there is no point in staying in England, Georgia decides that she would like to move to New Zealand because she doubts she will ever be Robbie's girlfriend and had fallen out with Jas. However, Georgia goes for a walk along the beach she sees Robbie. She apologises again and he forgives her and says that he still likes her. Now that she has patched things up with Robbie she no longer wants to move to New Zealand. She goes to her dad's work and asks to see his boss. As he is not there, Georgia pours her heart out to the secretary telling her how she is growing increasingly worried that her mum is having an affair with Jem and that she can't bear for her parents to be apart.
The film ends with Georgia's fifteenth birthday. She wakes up and her mum and her younger sister give her a card that is full of money. Georgia's mum tells Georgia to buy something nice for the evening because they are going to a club. When she gets to the club, which from the outside seems empty, she is greeted by all her friends and her mum tells her that her and Jas organised it together and so Jas and Georgia are reunited.It is revealed that Jem is infact, gay. Also, Georgia's dad returns from New Zealand with the news that he has been offered an even better job in Eastbourne so there is no need to leave the country. It is then announced the Stiff Dylans are playing, and they perform the song "Ultraviolet" which Robbie had written about Georgia. The performance, however, is interrupted by Lindsay who had come from her own party (which no one had turned up to) and tells Robbie that he should take her back or lose her forever. He shoots her down and tells her that Georgia is the one he wants, after which the Ace Gang expose her fake breasts, humiliating her in front of everybody. Robbie and Georgia share a romantic kiss on-stage. The film finishes the next day as Robbie is waiting for Georgia outside her house and them walking along the pier, into the sunset together.
Cast
Georgia Groome - Georgia Nicolson
Aaron Johnson - Robbie
Alan Davies - Bob Nicolson
Karen Taylor - Connie Nicolson
Eva Drew - Libby Nicolson
Eleanor Tomlinson - Jas
Manjeeven Grewal - Ellen
Georgia Henshaw - Rosie Barnes
Liam Hess - Peter Dyer
Sean Bourke - Tom
Tommy Bastow - Dave the Laugh
Kimberley Nixon - Slaggy Lindsay
Steve Jones - Jem the Builder
Ingrid Oliver - Miss Stamp
Detail Info
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Produced by Scott Aversano, Lynda Obst, Gurinder Chadha, Michelle Fox
Written by Louise Rennison (novel), Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha,Will McRobb, Chris Viscardi
Music by Joby Talbot
Cinematography Dick Pope
Editing by Martin Walsh, Justin Krish
Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Nickelodeon Movies
Running time 100 min.
Country UK
Language English
Budget $20 million
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