Local Hero
Genre: Comedy ·
Release Date: February 17, 1983
Status: Released
Running time: 1h 51m
Content Rating: PG
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An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster. Produced by David Puttnam, the film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company. For his work on the film, Forsyth won the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
A stage musical adaptation received its world premiere in 2019. In the same year a Criterion Collection DVD/Blu-ray was released in September.
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