Local Hero
1983 · TMDB 6.8
Directed by Bill Forsyth
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.
Why it matters
An American oil executive is sent to a Scottish coastal village to buy it up and finds himself seduced by the place instead. Forsyth's warmest film, with Peter Riegert's quiet bewilderment and a score by Mark Knopfler that does half the emotional work.
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Released
- 1983-02-17
- Studio
- Enigma Productions
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- Russian
- TMDB score
- 6.8
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