Local Hero
6.8
Overview
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.
Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
Burt Lancaster is the multi-millionaire oil magnate "Felix Happer" who despatches one of his minions (Peter Riegert) to Scotland to buy up a village to turn it into an oil refinery. Once he arrives, he is taken for a bit of a ride by the canny locals as they try to milk him for as much cash as they ...
Filipe Manuel Neto (Rated: 3)
Slow, with boring characters and dialogues and a disjointed script, this film does not justify the “hype” around it.
This is one of those indie films that has won over a legion of self-confessed admirers. It's a film that everyone speaks highly of, as if it were a solid masterpiece. I didn't ...
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