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) |
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| 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 |
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- 13784: Burt Lancaster - Felix Happer
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- 68686: Fulton Mackay - Ben
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- 116125: Jennifer Black - Stella
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Crews
- 8969: Chris Menges - Director of Photography - Camera
- 8271: Mark Knopfler - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 23865: Michael Bradsell - Editor - Editing
- 68687: Bill Forsyth - Director - Directing
- 8967: David Puttnam - Producer - Production
- 1484143: Adrienne Atkinson - Art Direction - Art
- 37301: Frank Walsh - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
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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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**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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