# Local hero (1983)

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**Original title**: *Local Hero*
**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama
**Directed by**: Bill Forsyth
**Written by**: Bill Forsyth
**Starring**: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black

> *THE STORY OF AN ORDINARY MAN IN AN EXTRAORDINARY PLACE.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Apparently someone thought buying a village would be easy. An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to purchase a village for a refinery. It predictably gets complicated.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cozy

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