Local Hero1983
Director: Bill Forsyth
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 111 minutes
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Norman Chancer
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 111 minutes
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… more »
Ben Knox:
"This beach used to be a good living for 300 people. They gathered seaweed and extracted the chemicals. Two hundred years ago, this beach was turning over 15,000 a year. Then the trade routes opened up again to the east, and so, 'Farewell, Ferness'. The business went, but the beach is still here.
"If you got the place, it would be goodbye beach, forever, wouldn't it?"
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