COMEDY
Local Hero
1983Directed by Bill ForsythGB111 minCOMEDYAge guide: 7+
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
★ 6.8/10 · 424 TMDB audience ratings
Starring
Burt LancasterFelix Happer
Peter Riegert"Mac" MacIntyre
Denis LawsonGordon Urquhart
Fulton MackayBen Knox
Peter CapaldiDanny Oldsen
Jennifer BlackStella Urquhart
Jenny SeagroveMarina
Norman ChancerMoritz
Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers
CinemaSerf: Burt Lancaster is the multi-millionaire oil magnate "Felix Happer" who despatches one of his minions (Peter Riegert) to Scotland to buy up a… Read full review
Filipe Manuel Neto: Slow, with boring characters and dialogues and a disjointed script, this film does not justify the “hype” around it. This is one of… Read full review