Film
Local Hero (1983)
A beautiful coastline... A rich oil man wants to develop it. A poor beach bum wants to live on it. An entire town wants to profit by it. And a real-live mermaid wants to save it... Only one of them will get their way.
Comedy, Drama· Directed by Bill Forsyth· 111 min
Overview
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.
Connections
Top billing
- Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer
- Peter Riegert as "Mac" MacIntyre
- Denis Lawson as Gordon Urquhart
- Fulton Mackay as Ben Knox
- Peter Capaldi as Danny Oldsen