Local Hero | 
 enlarge | Director: Bill Forsyth
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 1899
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: WARD11307D
ISBN: 6305558205
UPC: 085391130727
EAN: 9786305558200
ASIN: 6305558205
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1983
Release Date: September 21, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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When Mac MacIntyre (played with deadpan perfection by Peter Riegert) is sent by his star-gazing, slightly insane Knox Oil and Gas boss (Burt Lancaster) to Scotland's West Coast to buy the rights to a seaside town slated to be the site of an oil refinery, Mac embarks on his journey reluctantly. "Why do I have to go to all the way to Scotland?" Mac complains to a coworker. "I'm really more of a Telex man." But on the way to closing the deal, a funny thing happens: the place takes root in Mac. The town's eccentric inhabitants, eventful night sky, and stunning scenery soak into his psyche and combine to bring a very different Mac to the surface, a Mac who collects seashells, walks on the beach in his jeans instead of his suit, and throws his calendar watch, beeping "meeting time in Houston," into the sea. Mac eventually vies to switch places with Gordon Urquhart--accountant, bartender, innkeeper, and community representative in the land deal. After an evening spent drinking 42-year-old scotch ("old enough to be out on its own," Mac chirps, and then laughs smugly at his own joke) and negotiating the real estate deal, Mac tries to negotiate a deal for himself--to trade his high-rise Houston apartment, Porsche, and oil-company job for Urquhart's less traditional, but more fulfilling, life. The plot runs along almost as if behind the scenes, and the characters are intriguing, but the real appeal here is the incisive yet gentle humor. During a visit to a Knox Oil lab, Mac is shown into a room that contains a miniature of the town he has been sent to purchase. The head of the lab says, "Welcome to our little world," and then gives Mac the plastic replica of the town as a souvenir. "Dream large," he intones. The irony's easy to miss and is just one example of the intelligent presence--in the form of writer and director Bill Forsyth--working behind the scenes here. Mark Knopfler's delicate, haunting soundtrack complements the sometimes melancholy, sometimes hilarious currents of Local Hero to perfection. --Stefanie Durbin
Product Description
Knox Oil and Gas Company wants to buy, raze and replace a sleepy Scottish seaside village with refineries and deep-water docks. They send their top deal-maker and trouble-shooter to handle the negotiations.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-AUG-2004
Media Type: DVD
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 Charming Droll Film with a Wonderful Message September 6, 2010
Lynn Ellingwood (Webster, NY United States)
I was totally infatuated with Bill Forsyth films in the 80s. This is one of his highlights. An American Oil company goes to Scotland to survey for offshore drilling sites knowing that they will change the environment forever. The businessmen find charm and a beautiful way of life in the small villages they visit and beauty in the beaches and scenery they will destroy. While the oil company men become more apprehensive about destroying the local, the residents see the oil company and the money they bring as a way to wealth and an opportunity to leave a place that offers them very little in modernity. A very quiet charming film with wonderful insight into people.
Holds a high place in my video library August 26, 2010
Cathy the Elder
Love this movie! Beautiful location that makes me feel like I am on vacation!
Cathy
Charming witty endearing July 15, 2010
miktay (Miami, FL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite films of all time.
I fist saw it on HBO and was mesmerized by its even quiet pacing. This is a movie that gradually grows on you with interesting, if eccentric characters and an excellent ethereal music score that underscores the film's bittersweet ending.
Despite having viewed this movie at least a couple dozen times I find myself going back to this film every so often to escape from the hectic connected world.
Ive heard that because of the popularity of the film some visitors to Scotland go in search of the Inverness town and in particular the red phone booth that Peter Reiger's character uses to communicate with his bosses in Texas.
 no delivery June 16, 2010
Prof A. Hurst
this DVD was not delivered - I received a message from "Emerson House" -
Good day,
Unfortunately, we could not deliver postal package sent 01 April, As the recipient's address does not exist.
Please, print out the bill of lading that is in the attached document, and collect your parcel in our office at the address indicated in the bill of lading.
Best regards,
Emerson House
The correct address was provide so I think this message is nonsense. Very disappointing!
 Good DVD March 28, 2010
Verdoonie
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I was entertained by this DVD, it was not my favorite in this type of story. Good acting. Burt Lancaster was good. I didn't get involved as much with the characters.
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