Local Hero Page #8

Synopsis: Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Bill Forsyth
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Production: Warner Home Video
  Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
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PG
Year:
1983
111 min
3,501 Views

it's going to happen!

Hey, Mr Mac.

Hey! Can I...?

Can I get your autograph, please?

Ta! Good luck!

Hold on, Marina!

I want to talk to you.

- Goodbye!

- Bye!

Is that the Yank

in that thing, Edward?

Aye, Peter, that's him.

Ah, bugger it!

I meant to say cheerio.

'Scottish one-two-four.

Call approach. Out.'

Bravo romeo, roger.

QSY one-two-zero decimal four.

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Bill Forsyth

William David "Bill" Forsyth (born 29 July 1946) is a Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983), and Comfort and Joy (1984). more…

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