Local Hero
by Bill Forsyth
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Norman Chancer, Peter RiegertDirector: Bill Forsyth
Brand: LANCASTER,BURT
Cinematographer: Chris Menges
Writer: Bill Forsyth
Editor: Michael Bradsell
Producer: David Puttnam
Producer: Iain Smith
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Local Hero
DVD Review: Boring
Summary: 2 Stars
If you want to see Burt Lancaster, this is it. Otherwise, it is a waste of time.DVD Review: charming, quirky, poetic, with a great score by Mark Knopfler
Summary: 5 Stars
if you could take the humor of monty python and process it in the dream time of an aborigine warrior, you might get something like this. add DIRE STRAITS guitarist Mark Knopfler's aurora-inspired soundtrack, and you get a minor classic-- even, perhaps, a desert island film. DVD Review: Magnificent
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be the most evocative movie I've ever seen. I was in England before it was released and saw a special on television about it, about how mystical it was, and I knew I had to see it. When I got a VCR a few years later, Local Hero was the first film I rented, and then my older son bought the video of it for me, my very first video. Then many years later, he did the same thing when we got a DVD player. I've seen it so many times over the years that I know every nook and cranny of it. It was so gratifying to read through some of the reviews on Amazon of this film. Can't recall ever seeing folks go on like this about a movie. I can remember so well how I reacted on first viewing, identifying with that love of place and the longing for it when you have to leave. Cried like a baby at the end, I did.
When my husband and I got to Scotland for the first time, we found the beach from the film, near Mallaig. Needless to say, I fell completely in love with the country!
Right now my younger son is playing the movie for a wonderful young lady he's recently started seeing, and watching them appreciating this dear film warms my heart as much as the movie itself. Local Hero is really like penecillin for my soul. What a blessing it's been to me. Many, many thanks to everyone who had anything to do with the making of it.
DVD Review: One of the greatest movies...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a review from the heart. "Local Hero" is one of the greatest movies of all time. It is, simply, a masterpiece. I have never been so moved by anything I've seen on the screen. There is so much truth in this film. I am 65 years old and I've owned this movie ever since it came out on VHS many years ago. I watch the DVD at least once a week. I love it that much. And the soundtrack by Mark Knoplfer is just as wonderful.DVD Review: Should Be In Blue ray
Summary: 4 Stars
Hi all just got this movie and i think its a reat movie i wish every body should watch this movie its just a great movie but it should be in blue ray blue ray i get so mad that movies like this are not in blue ray please do me a favor rent it or buy it its a winner trust me
Description of Local Hero
Knox Oil and Gas Company wants to buy, raze and replace a sleepy Scottish seaside village with refineries and deep-water docks. They send their top deal-maker and trouble-shooter to handle the negotiations.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 3-AUG-2004
Media Type: DVD
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
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