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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.
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) :...
Up-and-coming Houston oil executive "Mac" MacIntyre (Peter Riegert) gets more than he bargained for when a seemingly simple business trip to Scotland changes his outlook on life.
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Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery.
Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster star in Bill Forsyth's whimsical comedy of an oil company's attempted buyout of a Scottish seaport. 2,658 IMDb 7.3 1 h 51 min 1983. PG. Comedy · Drama · Whimsical · Fun.
Sep 24, 2019 · Within Local Hero, it is Ben and Marina alone who articulate a realistic and considered sense of the natural world’s true worth, and of the ideal relationship humans might adopt toward it.
Comedy. Screen legend Burt Lancaster gives an outstanding performance as an eccentric oilman who orders a young executive ("Crossing Delancey"'s Peter Riegert) to...
