

Local Hero
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.
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βBurt Lancaster is the multi-millionaire oil magnate "Felix Happer" who despatches one of his minions (Peter Riegert) to Scotland to buy up a village to turn it into an oil refinery. Once he arrives,β¦β
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β 7Read moreβ**Slow, with boring characters and dialogues and a disjointed script, this film does not justify the βhypeβ around it.** This is one of those indie films that has won over a legion of self-confessedβ¦β
β Filipe Manuel Neto
β 3Read moreβBill Forsyth's Local Hero sends an American oil company executive (Peter Riegert) to a remote Scottish coastal village to buy it up for a refinery. What he finds instead is a community that can'tβ¦β
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