Local hero / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Enigma production for Goldcrest ; produced by David Puttnam ; written and directed by Bill Forsyth.

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Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens,...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Criterion collection ; 994.
Corporate Authors: Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) (Production company)
Enigma Productions (Production company)
Goldcrest Films International (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Forsyth, Bill, 1946- (Film director, Screenwriter)
Puttnam, David, 1941- (Film producer)
Menges, Chris, 1940- (director of photography.)
Knopfler, Mark (composer (expression))
Bradsell, Michael (Film editor)
Riegert, Peter, 1947- (Actor)
Mackay, Fulton, 1922-1987 (Actor)
Murray-Leach, Roger, 1943- (Production designer)
Capaldi, Peter (Actor)
Lawson, Denis (Actor)
Seagrove, Jenny (Actor)
Black, Jennifer (Actress) (Actor)
Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994 (Actor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
English dialogue; optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Edition:Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 994.
Subjects:
Fishing villages > Scotland > Drama.
Industrial location consultants > Scotland > Drama.
Petroleum industry and trade > Scotland > Drama.
Americans > Scotland > Drama.
Fishing villages.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Scotland.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Note:Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.
Accompanied by a fold-out leaflet featuring an essay, "Our man in Ferness", by film scholar Jonathan Murray.
Director-approved special edition features: commentary soundtrack with director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode, recorded in 2018; New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns; Shooting from heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges; 1983 episode of The South Bank show, about the production of the film; The making of Local hero; I thought maybe I'd get to meet Alan Whicker, a 1983 interview with Forsyth.
Call Number:PN1995.9.S27 L63 2019 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: PG.
ISBN:9781681436371
168143637X
Credits:Director of photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Michael Bradsell ; music, Mark Knopfler ; production designer, Roger Murray-Leach.
System Details:DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 widescreen presentation (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital monaural; color.
Cast:
Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton MacKay, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove, Burt Lancaster.