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DVD : Local Hero [1983]
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Local Hero [1983] starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer directed by: Bill Forsyth |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007812020 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: Universal Pictures UK Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Pictures UK Region Code: 2 Release Date: February 19, 2001 Running Time: 107 minutes Studio: Universal Pictures UK Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1983 Sales Rank: 39943 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Long before The Full Monty there was this lovely fish-out-of-water comedy by deft Scots writer-director Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl). Set in the 1980s during a period of controversy over North Sea oil drilling, Local Hero follows a likeable, woolly American junior executive (Peter Riegert) dispatched from Texas by his blustering boss (a high-spirited Burt Lancaster) to a small fishing village on the coast of Scotland for the purpose of swindling the presumably simple-minded locals out of their drilling rights. The surprise isn't that the villagers turn the tables on the American schemers, but that they do so without displaying a hint of malice. They get a kick out of flummoxing the city slickers. Even Lancaster's greed-head Felix Happer eventually has a change of heart. In outline, this may sound more ordinary than it feels as you're watching it. The fine young British actor Denis Lawson, who had a tiny role as one of the fighter pilots in Star Wars plays Riegert's UK contact, Gordon Urquhart, a sad sack with a noble soul. --David Chute Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Tranquil... mostlyI love the film. I love the music and love most of this album. Some tracks seem a bit strange such as the second one which is why I was a bit choosy as to which ones went onto my MP3 player. The main theme is haunting and deffinitely the best, the ceilidh music less memorable. All in all though this is a good soundtrack album. If only I could get hold of the film on DVD I would be very happy. Rating: - My favourite filmStill my favourite film almost twenty-five years after its release. Nice to see so many other people also rate it so highly. Makes you wish you were there on Scotland's west coast. Rating: - A British ClassicThis is the type of film that you keep on coming back to periodically, like It's A Wonderful Life or Breakfast At Tiffany's. The film exudes warmth and leaves you with a glow inside. At its heart, it is a simple tale of Knox Oil and Gas, a large multi-national corporation whose chairman is the wondefully cranky, stargazer Happer (played brilliantly by Burt Lancaster) and which seeks to purchase several miles of unspolit Scottish coastline to build an oil refinery. Happer dispatches Macintyre played by Peter Reigert to test the water for the development and strike the deal with the local community, headed by hotel owning/lawyer Gordon Urquhart (Denis Lawson). However, it is the human story which captures the audience. The director's ... Read More: Rating: - Essential movieAgree with all the reviews. This is a beautiful, heartwarming movie. Germany have just re-released it on their Focus Edition series, so there's no need to pay up to 90 quid on the second hand market. Just check out amazon.de Rating: - An underrated 1980's feel good movieI can just about remember watching this with my dad as a child in the 1980's and being absolutely bored to the point of insanity, watched this sometime in 2006 on film four and absolutely loved it, what an amazing change of opinion. I am only guessing that a lot of people have never seen or even heard of this, if you haven't then you really don't know what you are missing. Without going into too much detail it is about an American junior executive (Peter Riegert) who is sent to a small Scottish fishing village by his rich greedy boss (Burt Lancaster) to buy for oil although it is a lot more complex than this and so you would be better off watching it yourself so you will know what I mean when I say this is an underrated beautiful feel ... Read More: |
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