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Local Hero [1983] | ![Local Hero [1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MIueS1JUL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Bill Forsyth
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Jenny Seagrove
Studio: 4dvd
Category: DVD
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 629
Format: Pal
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 6867449007694
ASIN: B0010LB00W
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Release Date: May 12, 2008
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a perfect movie May 3, 2008
Mrs. Patricia Bark (Sunny Manchester UK)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Now and again there comes a film that leaps into your heart, a film to take to your desert island and a film that becomes a life long friend. Local Hero is one such film. It's an unashamedly, brilliantly British comedy following in the footsteps of the Ealing Comedies, yet like the Ladykillers etc still has universal appeal. It's the tale of loneliness, of wanting to belong somewhere and finding that place. It looks magnificent (the Scottish scenery will have you on the next train to the Highlands) and it sounds... oh the music!!!! A glorious score and what an ending. If your not smiling back the tears as Mark Knopfler's guitar sweeps you into the end credits then some thing's wrong.
Films don't get much better than this.
"And are there two g's in 'bugger off'"? March 17, 2008
Call Me Sparky (London, England)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
A charming film, almost perfcet from location to casting to plot. A jaded American businessman journeys to Scotland to take advantage of the locals and ends up falling in love with the village and the quiet life.
If you want to put a smile on your face, this is the way to do it.
A feel good - go there movie...but please don't!.... May 10, 2008
Alan Richards (Northern England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
...because too many people will simply sp-oil its character...still, if you really must...then leave only your footprints and take home only memories.
I first saw this fine film in 1983 and visited the beach location within weeks! It's an awe inspiring place , which is beautifully served by the light, and the cinematography in the film. The movie is quirky, and inoffensive. A real gem. The hard nosed Texas oil man soon captivated by the community, and the timeless lure of the remote Scottish Highlands.
A plot still relevant today...as the oil is costing us a fortune..but still, not quite, the earth.We are greener...and not quite so green.
With superb casting...the locals all seem so...local, and a script of simplicity the guile and olde worlde cunning of the grasping villagers warms the heart...at least it would if you couldn't see them about to make the biggest mistake of their lives!
The village scenes were shot more than a hundred and fifty miles from the beach itself...it took me a little longer to visit Pennan...but I made it finally in 2006. A dramatic location at the foot of huge cliffs, where the churning sea regularly crashes onto the main street...which as main streets go is not very 'main' at all... quiet...save for the manic moped which punctuates almost every village scene.
The music is splendid and perfectly apt , Big Burt is just right for his cameo role and Fulton Mackay with his upturned boat style hovel on the sand manage to capture the essence of a des.res.
'Local Hero' will charm you..it will draw you in. Put the 21st. century into abeyance for a couple of hours and savour the flavour of a time that's only just slipped away. You might not have noticed its passing...this film is an ever-so-gentle reminder.
Comfort and joy from this movie June 29, 2008
Wowbagger the Infinite (Somerset, UK)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Where to begin? This is almost the perfect feel good movie. It's gentle whimsical way is so resonant of earlier Ealing comedies, but I personally think lifts that genre to another level. Always keep an eye out in the background in this movie - there always seems to be something going on. Then you have the running gag about the young punk lad on his motorbike - "Ricky's on the road tonight, you have to look both ways...", even down to the scraggy old dog that always seems to be asleep in the middle of the road - it is all here in subtle glory.
Peter Riegert is wonderful as the American fish out of water who grows to love the place he has been sent to. Peter Capaldi looks like the disjointed man - how can anyone look that ungainly? Fulton MacKay is a real treasure as old Ben Knox and Dennis Lawson is subtly hilarious as amorous hotel owner, accountant and occasional taxi driver Gordon Urquhart. Even Burt Lancaster is not too stilted as Felix Happer.
For me, the finest moments come during the ceilidh, and not from the major characters. Just watch out for the two old farmers discussing their futures. Brilliant.
And to cap it all off, you have Jenny Seagrove in a swimsuit. How could I not give it five stars? Cuddle up with someone special and just let it wash over you.
Local Hero National Star January 8, 2008
Mark Page (Scottish Borders)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is one of the best films to come out of the UK in the 1980's. It is dry, witty and well acted.
'Ye canna get that many bales of hay in the back of a Maserati'
The scenery of the Scottish East and West coasts is beautiful and the Mark Knopfler score is wonderfully evocative.
I live in Scotland and know the areas where it was filmed and it captures the spirit of the place beautifully.
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