Local Hero

Local Hero is a 1983 British comedydrama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, 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, Bill Forsyth won the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction.

Upon arriving in Scotland, Mac teams up with local Knox representative Danny Oldsen Peter Capaldi. During a visit to a Knox research facility in Aberdeen, Dr Geddes Rikki Fulton and his assistant Watt Alex Norton inform them about the scope of the companys plans, which entail replacing Ferness with the refinery. They also meet and admire marine researcher Marina Jenny Seagrove.Mac ultimately spends several weeks in Ferness, gradually adapting to the slowerpaced life and getting to know the eccentric residents, most notably the hotel owner and accountant, Gordon Urquhart Denis Lawson and his wife, Stella Jennifer Black. As time passes, Mac becomes more and more conflicted as he presses to close the deal that will spell the end of the quaint little village he has come to love. Ironically, the villagers are tired of the hard life they lead and are more than eager to sell, though they feign indifference to induce a larger offer. Mac receives encouragement from an unlikely source Victor Christopher Rozycki, a capitalistic Soviet fishing boat captain who periodically visits his friends in Ferness and checks on his investment portfolio, managed by Gordon. ........

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