Film
Local Hero
United Kingdom- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Bill Forsyth
- Year
- 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.
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.
Top cast
Burt Lancaster
Felix Happer
Peter Riegert
"Mac" MacIntyre
Denis Lawson
Gordon Urquhart
Fulton Mackay
Ben Knox
Peter Capaldi
Danny Oldsen
Jennifer Black
Stella Urquhart
Jenny Seagrove
Marina
Norman Chancer
Moritz
Rikki Fulton
Geddes
Alex Norton
Watt
Christopher Rozycki
Victor
Gyearbuor Asante
Rev Macpherson
John M. Jackson
Cal
Dan Ammerman
Donaldson
Tam Dean Burn
Roddy
John Gordon Sinclair
Ricky
Caroline Guthrie
Pauline
Jimmy Yuill
Iain
Directed by
Bill Forsyth
Written by
Bill Forsyth
Produced by
David Puttnam
