LOCAL HERO (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1983
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Knox Oil and Gas of Houston is far removed from the North Sea oil it desires--and the sleepy Scottish seaside village it wants to buy and replace with a refinery. ; ; So Knox sends its ace dealmaker (Peter Riegert) to negotiate. He finds cheerful future millionaires, awesome northern lights, a lusty innkeeper, a stubborn beachcomber and a mermaid with webbed toes. And you've found Bill Forsyth's enchanting comedy 'Local Hero'.; ; Forsyth's touch is perfect: whether showing us a tycoon (Burt Lancaster) with his head in the stars or bridging generations at an all-night ceilidh dance, our spirits are always in good hands. ; ; 'Genuine fairy tales are rare. So is filmmaking that is throughly original,' Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote. ''Local Hero', a disarming, funny movie, is both.'
• 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, Michele McCarel, Roddy Murray, Buddy Quaid, Edith Ruddick, John Gordon Sinclair, Anne Thompson, Sandra Voe, Dale Winchester, Jimmy Yuill, Bill Forsyth
• Director: Bill Forsyth
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Media Format: Movie