Local Hero
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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.
Format:DVD
Language:English
UPC:085391130727
Release Date:September 1999
Rating:PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher:Warner Home Video
Director:Bill Forsyth
Starring:Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny Seagrove, Jennifer Black
Runtime:1 hour, 52 minutes
Number of Disks:1
Other Video Info:Anamorphic; NTSC; Dolby; Full Screen; Closed-captioned; Widescreen; Color; DVD
Weight:0.21 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"
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