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Local Hero

02/17/1983

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1hr 51min

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Comedy

,Drama

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.

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Burt Lancaster
  • Peter Riegert
  • Denis Lawson
  • Fulton Mackay
  • Peter Capaldi

    Directors

  • Bill Forsyth
  • Jonathan Benson
  • Melvin Lind

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Enigma Productions
  • Goldcrest
  • Celandine Films

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese
  • Russian
  • English

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

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