Local Hero (film)

Local Hero
Local Hero
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Bill Forsyth
Written by	Bill Forsyth
Produced by	David Puttnam; Iain Smith;
Starring	Peter Riegert; Denis Lawson; Fulton Mackay; Burt Lancaster;
Cinematography	Chris Menges
Edited by	Michael Bradsell
Music by	Mark Knopfler
Production; company	Goldcrest Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	17 February 1983 (US);
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£3 million or £2.6 million
Box office	$5.9 million (US)

Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster. Produced by David Puttnam, the film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company. For his work on the film, Forsyth won the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction.

A stage musical adaptation received its world premiere in 2019. In the same year a Criterion Collection DVD/Blu-ray was released in September.^[5]

^ "Local Hero (1983)". BBFC. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
^ Walker, Alexander (1985). National Heroes: British Cinema in the Seventies and Eighties. Harrap. p. 182. ISBN 9780752857077.
^ Eberts, Jake; Illott, Terry (1990). My indecision is final. Faber and Faber. p. 116. ISBN 9780571148899.
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^ "Bill Forsyth: Local Hero". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 5 December 2021.