Local Hero
1983
comedy drama, comedy film
- Director
- Bill Forsyth
- Runtime
- 111 min
Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays 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 to build an oil refinery. The musical score was composed by Mark Knopfler.
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