LoginLocal Hero - Region 2 DVD
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Long before The Full Monty there was this lovely fish-out-of-water comedy by deft Scots writer-director Bill Forsyth (Gregory's Girl). Set in the 1980s during a period of controversy over North Sea oil drilling, Local Hero follows a likeable, woolly American junior executive (Peter Riegert) dispatched from Texas by his blustering boss (a high-spirited Burt Lancaster) to a small fishing village on the coast of Scotland for the purpose of swindling the presumably simple-minded locals out of their drilling rights. The surprise isn't that the villagers turn the tables on the American schemers, but that they do so without displaying
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Manufacturer: Channel 4
Release date: 12 May 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 6867449007694
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Release date: 12 May 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 6867449007694
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