Local Hero
Streaming video - 1983
Peter Riegert and Academy Award winner Burt Lancaster star in Bill Forsyth's charming, offbeat comedy about Texas oilmen seduced by the charms of a tiny Scottish village -- LOCAL HERO.Oil billionaire Felix Happer's (Lancaster--Field of Dreams) company has struck oil in the North Sea, but it needs a port out of which to base its drilling operations. The perfect harbor is found in a seaside village, and Happer sends Mac (Riegert) to buy then entire town, which--unbeknownst to Mac--is eager to take the money and move. But the charm of town that Mac is supposed to buy gradually transforms the oilmen in very unexpected ways.
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- Feature films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Warner Bros
1983.
2024. - Language
- English
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- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).