Local Hero
We were delighted to previously screen this film but we have no current plans to screen it again. If you'd like to watch it in the cinema, consider a private hire to watch it with friends. That does rely on the film being available for private purchase.
Film details
| Film Title | Local Hero |
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| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 111mins |
| Year | 1983 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Director | Jim Howe |
| Actors | Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove, Burt Lancaster, Norman Chancer, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Christopher Rozycki, Gyearbuor Asante, John M. Jackson, Dan Ammerman, Tam Dean Burn |
| Language | English, Japanese, Russian |
| Showings |
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.
[It’s] loaded with wry, offbeat humor and is the sort of satisfying, personal picture that is becoming an increasingly rare commodity these days
★★★★★
VarietyLocal Hero snares your heart because it takes on a fantasy element: something to do with Happer’s visionary obsession with the stars.
★★★★★
