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Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster.
Apr 29, 1983 · Local Hero: Directed by Bill Forsyth. With Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson. An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
Local Hero. Here is a small film to treasure, a loving, funny, understated portrait of a small Scottish town and its encounter with a giant oil company. The town is tucked away in a sparkling little bay, and is so small that everybody is well aware of everybody else's foibles.
A charmingly low-key character study brought to life by a tremendously talented cast, Local Hero is as humorous as it is heartwarming. Read Critics Reviews. A Scottish-American charmer with a...
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Jan 4, 2020 · Directed by Bill Forsyth. Starring Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert and Fulton Mackay. Local Hero Blu-ray (Amazon) : https://amzn.to/3lcMqwS Local Hero Blu-ray (Criterion) :...
Comedy. Screen legend Burt Lancaster gives an outstanding performance as an eccentric oilman who orders a young executive ("Crossing Delancey"'s Peter Riegert) to...
Woot! Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster star in Bill Forsyth's whimsical comedy of an oil company's attempted buyout of a Scottish seaport.