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

Local hero

Published: Warner Home Video, 1999

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Video DVD

Screenplaying

Authors: Knopfler, Mark
Published: Warner Bros. Records, 1993

Physical Description: 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

CD Audio