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  Local Hero

Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scottish village to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However, a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

111 Minutes

Bill Forsyth

Bill Forsyth

Burt Lancaster....Felix Happer
Peter Riegert....Mac
Fulton Mackay....Ben
Denis Lawson....Urquhart
Norman Chancer....Moritz
Peter Capaldi....Oldsen
Rikki Fulton....Geddes
Alex Norton....Watt
Jenny Seagrove....Marina
Jennifer Black....Stella
Christopher Rozycki....Victor
Gyearbuor Asante....Rev Macpherson (as Christopher Asante)
John M. Jackson....Cal (as John Jackson)
Dan Ammerman....Donaldson
Tam Dean Burn....Roddy

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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