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Local Hero

Local Hero

1983
1 hr 51 min
6.738
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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  • CinemaSerf

    Burt 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, he is taken for a bit of a ride by the canny local...

  • Filipe Manuel Neto

    **Slow, with boring characters and dialogues and a disjointed script, this film does not justify the “hype” around it.** This is one of those indie films that has won over a legion of self-confessed admirers. It's a film that everyone speaks high...