Story Line
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.
“THE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN IN AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE.”
Top 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
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Rating
6.8/ 10
Release Date
1983-02-17
Runtime
1h 51m
Genres
ComedyDrama
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User Reviews (3)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/8/2023Burt 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...
Filipe Manuel Neto
3/10
•6/20/2023**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 highl...
badelf
9/10
•2/5/2026Bill Forsyth's Local Hero sends an American oil company executive (Peter Riegert) to a remote Scottish coastal village to buy it up for a refinery. What he finds instead is a community that can't quite be bought, locals who negotiate on their own ecc...