Film

Local Hero

Director
Bill Forsyth
Certificate
12A
Running Time
107 mins

Texas oilman Burt Lancaster travels to scenic Scotland intent on buying a small village in which to build an oil refinery. Needless to say, the villagers are not best pleased and decide to fight back.

Bill Forsyth‘s Trump-anticipating 1983 comedy remains great fun and spares us the whimsy of the director’s earlier Gregory’s Girl.

By robin askew, Wednesday, Jun 30 2021

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