Local Hero
111 minutes,
UK (1983), PG
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(4.9 / 122 votes)
(4.9 / 122 votes)
The finest of the whimsical Scottish films whose off-beat appeal kick-started the British film industry's revival in the mid 1980s
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Local Hero: Riegert plays a cynical, yuppy oil-firm executive waiting to be softened up by exposure to the warmth and eccentricities of a small Scottish community. He is dispatched to the coastal town by his greedy boss (Lancaster), with the aim of buying up land for commercial exploitation, so destroying an area that includes a stretch of environmentally sensitive coastland...
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