Local Hero
Feb 17 1983
•2h 51m
•Comedy, Drama
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Cast
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Burt Lancaster
Felix Happer
Peter Riegert
Mac
Denis Lawson
Urquhart
Fulton Mackay
Ben
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