Amazon.co.uk: Local Hero [1983]: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny Seagrove, Jennifer Black, Christopher Rozycki, Gyearbuor Asante, John M. Jackson, Dan Ammerman, Tam Dean Burn, Bill Forsyth: DVD

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Local Hero [1983]
DVD ~ Burt Lancaster

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Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer
Directors: Bill Forsyth
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Language English
Region: Region 2 ( DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification:
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
DVD Release Date: 19 Feb 2001
Run Time: 107 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(27 customer reviews)

DVD Features:
- Main Language: English
- Available Audio Tracks: Dolby Digital
- Hearing Impaired: English
- Disc Format: DVD 5
- Interactive Menus
- Stills Gallery
ASIN: B000056APN
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,180 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Long before The Full Monty there was this lovely fish-out-of-water comedy by deft Scots writer-director Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl). Set in the 1980s during a period of controversy over North Sea oil drilling, Local Hero follows a likeable, woolly American junior executive (Peter Riegert) dispatched from Texas by his blustering boss (a high-spirited Burt Lancaster) to a small fishing village on the coast of Scotland for the purpose of swindling the presumably simple-minded locals out of their drilling rights. The surprise isn't that the villagers turn the tables on the American schemers, but that they do so without displaying a hint of malice. They get a kick out of flummoxing the city slickers. Even Lancaster's greed-head Felix Happer eventually has a change of heart. In outline, this may sound more ordinary than it feels as you're watching it. The fine young British actor Denis Lawson, who had a tiny role as one of the fighter pilots in Star Wars plays Riegert's UK contact, Gordon Urquhart, a sad sack with a noble soul. --David Chute

Special Features
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 5
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital English
Dolby Digital
Interactive Menus
Stills Gallery

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