PGLocal Hero

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IMDB (26,866 votes)

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500M
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Play Time: 111 mins
Comedy, Drama
Local Hero

Overview:
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.

Status: Released (1983-02-17)
Awards:Won 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 6 nominations total
BoxOffice:$5,895,761
Screen:Bill Forsyth
Productions: Enigma Productions, Goldcrest, Film4 Productions, Celandine Films
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Spoken Languages: 日本語, Pусский, English
Local Hero
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Reviews

CinemaSerf

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Burt Lancaster is the multi-millionaire oil magnate "Felix Happer" who despatches one of his minions (Peter Riegert) to Scotland to buy up a village to turn it into an oil refinery. Once he arrives, he is taken for a bit of a ride by the canny locals as they try to milk him for as mu ....

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Filipe Manuel Neto

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**Slow, with boring characters and dialogues and a disjointed script, this film does not justify the “hype” around it.** This is one of those indie films that has won over a legion of self-confessed admirers. It's a film that everyone speaks highly of, as if it were a solid master ....

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