Local Hero | |
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Directed by | Bill Forsyth |
Written by | Bill Forsyth |
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Cinematography | Chris Menges |
Edited by | Michael Bradsell |
Music by | Mark Knopfler |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox[1] |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £3 million[2] or £2.6 million[3] |
Box office | $5.9 million (US)[4] |
Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster. Produced by David Puttnam, the film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company. For his work on the film, Forsyth won the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction.
A stage musical adaptation received its world premiere in 2019. In the same year a Criterion Collection DVD/Blu-ray was released in September.[5]
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