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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9786305558200 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305558205 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 21, 1999 Running Time: 111 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1983 Sales Rank: 3668 MPN: WARD11307D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: An american oil company sends a man to scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things dont go as expected. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/03/2004 Starring: Burt Lancaster Fulton Mackay Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Bill Forsyth Amazon.com essential video: When Mac MacIntyre (played with deadpan perfection by Peter Riegert) is sent by his star-gazing, slightly insane Knox Oil and Gas boss (Burt Lancaster) to Scotland's West Coast to buy the rights to a seaside town slated to be the site of an oil refinery, Mac embarks on his journey reluctantly. "Why do I have to go to all the way to Scotland?" Mac complains to a coworker. "I'm really more of a Telex man." But on the way to closing the deal, a funny thing happens: the place takes root in Mac. The town's eccentric inhabitants, eventful night sky, and stunning scenery soak into his psyche and combine to bring a very different Mac to the surface, a Mac who collects seashells, walks on the beach in his jeans instead of his suit, and throws his calendar watch, beeping "meeting time in Houston," into the sea. Mac eventually vies to switch places with Gordon Urquhart--accountant, bartender, innkeeper, and community representative in the land deal. After an evening spent drinking 42-year-old scotch ("old enough to be out on its own," Mac chirps, and then laughs smugly at his own joke) and negotiating the real estate deal, Mac tries to negotiate a deal for himself--to trade his high-rise Houston apartment, Porsche, and oil-company job for Urquhart's less traditional, but more fulfilling, life. The plot runs along almost as if behind the scenes, and the characters are intriguing, but the real appeal here is the incisive yet gentle humor. During a visit to a Knox Oil lab, Mac is shown into a room that contains a miniature of the town he has been sent to purchase. The head of the lab says, "Welcome to our little world," and then gives Mac the plastic replica of the town as a souvenir. "Dream large," he intones. The irony's easy to miss and is just one example of the intelligent presence--in the form of writer and director Bill Forsyth--working behind the scenes here. Mark Knopfler's delicate, haunting soundtrack complements the sometimes melancholy, sometimes hilarious currents of Local Hero to perfection. --Stefanie Durbin Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Local Hero -- Next generation?I see that Amazon is temporarity out of stock and hope the ratings will tell the industry to fix up the next iteration for us Local-Hero-phyles. I've only seen it on square-TV and can't imagine the impact of the fog, the coast, and the lights on full screen. I've only heard the transistor radio sound quality. Still, I rent this every four years or so, just to see if the deep gut chuckles are still there-- and they are. There will always be the divide between the five and the one-star reviews ... Read More Rating: - A brilliant, flawless gemAs close to perfect as any movie i've ever seen, funny, absurd, winsome, and with real warmth throughout. Be warned: if you don't have a taste for the absurd, you're not going to like this. But if you're looking for some real magic on the screen, give it a try and you'll find yourself watching it over again and thinking about it even more. It's sad that Forsyth was never quite able to build on this and his successor (which i loved), Housekeeping. At his peak, there wasn't much of an alternative ... Read More Rating: - The chill behind the warmth.I have read around thirty of the reviews written for this film and all of them describe it as warm, witty, endearing, and gentle. All of which is, on the surface, true. The film can be appreciated for those qualities. But there is also a real darkness at the heart of this movie that seems to have somehow escaped most viewers. It is suggested most blatantly at the beginning in the short publicity film we see for Knox Oil. It is suggested further by the power Happer is demonstrated to have by virtue of his wealth ... Read More Rating: - After 20+ years, never fails to make me smileLike some of the other reviewers, when this movie came out I was fresh out of college with that misguided sense of ambition that characterized our generation. We were supposed to admire and emulate people like MacIntyre, the stereotype 80s corporate over-achiever, although like him, many of us also figured out that there were more important things in life. However, this is one of my very favorite movies for several reasons beyond the generational aspect: the dry Gaelic wit, the understated performances, the breathtaking ... Read More Rating: - It is written in the starsWhat do you get when you have an oil tycoon and a young businessman wanting to change a sleepy village into the "petrol capital of the free world?" The 1983 enchanting film, LOCAL HERO, written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam who is best known for CHARIOTS OF FIRE. This film is not as epic as the previous, but rather a contemporary and quiet respite from all the extravagance displayed in FIRE. Burt Lancaster plays the executive of Knox Oil and Gas, Felix Happer, and sends Mac MacIntyre ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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