Image courtesy of Park Circus/Goldcrest Films
Local Hero
classified 12A
Film
Please note: This was screened in June 2023
A 2K digital restoration of Bill Forsyth's 1983 comedy-drama Local Hero made from original 35mm materials.
A Texas oil company executive (Peter Riegert) is sent to Scotland to buy up an entire village for the site of a new refinery. There, he finds cheerful future millionaires, awesome Northern Lights, a lusty innkeeper, a stubborn beachcomber and a mermaid with webbed toes.
Forsyth's touch is perfect: whether showing us a tycoon (Burt Lancaster) with his head in the stars or bridging generations at an all-night ceilidh dance, Local Hero is beautifully shot and filled with warmth, wit and eccentricity - ready to be discovered anew on the big screen.