Criterion Collection

Local Hero Bd, Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray

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$5 - $10, Bill Forsyth, Burt Lancaster, Comedy, Comedy Video, Criterion Collection, David Puttnam, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Mark Knopfler, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Norman Chancer, Over $10, Peter Capaldi, Peter Riegert, Recently Sold, The Criterion Collection, Under $5

Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and it's oddball denizens and Texas starts to feel awfully far away. Packed with a near nonstop stream of droll one-liners and deadpan gags, this enchanting cult hit finds Forsyth surveying the idiosyncrasies of small-town life with the satirical verve of a latter-day Preston Sturges, arriving at a sly commentary on conservation, corporate greed, and the legacies we leave behind.

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