LOCAL HERO - DVD-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1983
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. 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. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens—and Texas starts to feel awfully far away. Packed with a near nonstop stream of droll one-liners and deadpan gags, this enchanting cult hit finds Forsyth surveying the idiosyncrasies of small-town life with the satirical verve of a latter-day Preston Sturges, arriving at a sly commentary on conservation, corporate greed, and the legacies we leave behind.
• Cast: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny Seagrove, Jennifer Black, Christopher Rozycki, Gyearbuor Asante, John M. Jackson, Dan Ammerman, Tam Dean Burn, Luke Coulter, Karen Douglas, Kenny Ireland, Harlan Jordan, Charles Kearney, Betty Macey, David Mowat, John Poland, Brian Rowan, Ann Scott-Jones, Ian Stewart, Tanya Ticktin, Jonathan Watson, Mark Winchester, Dave Anderson, Alan Clark, Alan Darby, Caroline Guthrie, Ray Jeffries, Willie Joss, James Kennedy, Michelle McCarel, Roddy Murray, Buddy Quaid, Edith Ruddick, John Gordon Sinclair, Anne Thompson, Sandra Voe, Dale Winchester, Jimmy Yuill, Bill Forsyth
• Director: Bill Forsyth
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Enigma, Goldcrest, The Criterion Collection, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie