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 enlarge | Director: Bill Forsyth
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Jenny Seagrove
Studio: 4dvd
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 734
Format: Pal
Rating: Parental Guidance
Running Time: 107 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 6867449007694
ASIN: B0010LB00W
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Release Date: May 12, 2008
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Quintesentially Scottish. July 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For me, this is all about what it means to be Scottish.
A place where the restless soul of the American capitalist yearning for a warm community, open skies and peace of mind meets the entepreneurial, world-climbing, gregarious spirit of the fun-loving Russian communist.
Fulton MacKay is the anchor, the living reminder of the importance of roots, community and the environment, in an age where all three are swept aside for greed and gain.
I laughed many times, I sighed, I missed all the characters as soon as the movie ended.
Someone give Donald Trump a copy and show the guy how to have some class.
Comfort and joy from this movie June 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Where to begin? This is almost the perfect feel good movie. It's gentle whimsical way is so resonant of earlier Ealing comedies, but I personally think lifts that genre to another level. Always keep an eye out in the background in this movie - there always seems to be something going on. Then you have the running gag about the young punk lad on his motorbike - "Ricky's on the road tonight, you have to look both ways...", even down to the scraggy old dog that always seems to be asleep in the middle of the road - it is all here in subtle glory.
Peter Riegert is wonderful as the American fish out of water who grows to love the place he has been sent to. Peter Capaldi looks like the disjointed man - how can anyone look that ungainly? Fulton MacKay is a real treasure as old Ben Knox and Dennis Lawson is subtly hilarious as amorous hotel owner, accountant and occasional taxi driver Gordon Urquhart. Even Burt Lancaster is not too stilted as Felix Happer.
For me, the finest moments come during the ceilidh, and not from the major characters. Just watch out for the two old farmers discussing their futures. Brilliant.
And to cap it all off, you have Jenny Seagrove in a swimsuit. How could I not give it five stars? Cuddle up with someone special and just let it wash over you.
Best feel good movie....ever! June 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
25 years on, this movie still stands up as a great film.
It is a feel good movie but with a wealth of dry, subtle wit, fantastic locations & great characters.
It's just perfect.
A feel good - go there movie...but please don't!.... May 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
...because to many people will simply sp-oil it's character...still, if you really must...leave only yout footprints.
I first saw this fine film in 1983 and visited the beach location within weeks! It's an awe inspiring place , which is beautifully served by the light, and the cinematography in the film. The movie is quirky, and inoffensive. A real gem. The hard nosed Texas oil man soon captivated by the community, and the timeless lure of the remote Scottish Highlands.
A plot still relevant today...as the oil is costing us a fortune..but still, not quite, the earth.We are greener...and not quite so green.
With superb casting...the locals all seem so...local, and a script of simplicity the guile and olde worlde cunning of the grasping villagers warms the heart...at least it would if you couldn't see them about to make the biggest mistake of their lives!
The village scenes were shot more than a hundred and fifty miles from the beach itself...it took me a little longer to visit Pennan...but I made it finally in 2006. A dramatic location at the foot of huge cliffs, where the churning sea regularly crashes onto the main street...which as main streets go is not very 'main' at all...save for the manic moped which punctuates almost every village scene.
The music is splendid , Big Burt is just right for his almost cameo role and Fulton Mackay and his upturned boat style hovel on the sand manage to capture the essence of a des.res.
'Local Hero' will charm you..it will draw you in. Put the 21st. century into abeyance for a couple of hours and savour the flavour of a time that's only just slipped away. You might not have noticed...this film is a reminder.
a perfect movie May 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Now and again there comes a film that leaps into your heart, a film to take to your desert island and a film that becomes a life long friend. Local Hero is one such film. It's an unashamedly, brilliantly British comedy following in the footsteps of the Ealing Comedies, yet like the Ladykillers etc still has universal appeal. It's the tale of loneliness, of wanting to belong somewhere and finding that place. It looks magnificent (the Scottish scenery will have you on the next train to the Highlands) and it sounds... oh the music!!!! A glorious score and what an ending. If your not smiling back the tears as Mark Knopfler's guitar sweeps you into the end credits then some thing's wrong.
Films don't get much better than this.
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