PG1h 51m1983
Local Hero
“A BEAUTIFUL COASTLINE... A RICH OIL MAN WANTS TO DEVELOP IT. A POOR BEACH BUM WANTS TO LIVE ON IT. AN ENTIRE TOWN WANTS TO PROFIT BY IT. AND A REAL-LIVE MERMAID WANTS TO SAVE IT... ONLY ONE OF THEM WILL GET THEIR WAY.”
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An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
- Director
- Bill Forsyth
- Writers
- Bill Forsyth
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Release date
- 17 February 1983
- Budget
- $4,200,000
- Box office
- $5,900,000
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Cast
Burt Lancaster
Felix Happer
Peter Riegert
"Mac" MacIntyre
Denis Lawson
Gordon Urquhart
Fulton Mackay
Ben Knox
Peter Capaldi
Danny Oldsen
Jennifer Black
Stella Urquhart
Jenny Seagrove
Marina
Norman Chancer
Moritz
Rikki Fulton
Geddes
Alex Norton
Watt
Christopher Rozycki
Victor
Gyearbuor Asante
Rev Macpherson
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