YMMV / Georgy Girl

• Hollywood Homely: The attractive and stylish Lynn Redgrave was dolled down, made up, and used odd facial expressions to play the awkward and "plain" Georgy and even after she dresses up more, she does look attractive but not in a bombshell nor gamine manner.
• Les Yay:
  • Many viewers interpret Georgy as a Butch Lesbian harboring an unrequited crush on Meredith, given how devoted she is at the beginning and that she's every inch the Tomboy that doesn't seem to care much for fashion and isn't really attached to men as she is to the idea of being a mom.
  • The has Peg the Neighbor having such inclinations towards Georgy though she addresses them as both being single and less-than-drop-dead-gorgeous.
• Once Original, Now Common: The film was slapped with an "M" rating (after the Production Code was revised) and was almost prevented from being released, due to the fact it covered cohabitation, abortions, premarital sex, adultery, and single parenthood; it was a ground-breaker when it came out (during the Sexual Revolution) but has since then been viewed as rather tame and dated and as Lynn Redgrave noted, by The '80s was shown on TV before late night.
• Older Than They Think: That shot in The Graduate where Ben and Elaine are together in a vehicle and yet seem really uncertain of what will happen next? Was done in this film a year before, sometimes earning it the title of "the girls' The Graduate".
• Retroactive Recognition: Ted is played by Bill Owen, who would later be best known for playing Compo Simmonite in Last of the Summer Wine.
• Values Resonance/Values Dissonance: Abortion is still a rather dicey issue in real-life as well as in fiction but Western society has gotten more tolerant of cohabitation, premarital sex, and single parenthood since then and modern audiences will be shocked at Meredith's It's All About Me attitude regarding motherhood but would readily admit she wasn't mother material in the first place. Of course it has gotten less incomprehensible for a young woman to enter a dissatisfying marriage just to better her life and to have children.
  • The film and novel has gotten more resonant over the years with how it points out that a married, biological parents aren't always the best parents for kids and that single parenthood, even the kind chosen by Georgy, is valid.

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