Local Hero

United Kingdom, 1983

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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.

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Credits

producer

David Puttnam

screenplay

Bill Forsyth

Duration

01:51:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1983

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-11235

Language

English

Subject categories

Comedy

Drama

TMDB-Movie

11235

Wikidata

Q639969

Collected

78 times

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