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Local Hero

1983

Bill Forsyth

Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi ...

6.8

2,983

Comedy. Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"While modest in intent and gentle in feel, 'Local Hero' is loaded with wry, offbeat humor and is the sort of satisfying, personal picture that is becoming an increasingly rare commodity these days"	POS
United Kingdom	Bill Mann The Guardian	"[It is] a love poem to Scotland, and that’s what brings the lump to my throat (...) This is all top material from a very talented writer/director"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Here is a small film to treasure, a loving, funny, understated portrait of a small Scottish town and its encounter with a giant oil company (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Its essential triumph is to prove that comedy can still contain a gentle, almost mystical, aspect without necessarily being old-fashioned. The film achieves this best in its superb sense of location"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Genuine fairy tales are rare; so is film-making that is thoroughly original in an unobtrusive way. Bill Forsyth's quirky disarming 'Local Hero' is both"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"An entertaining, low-key gem (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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