Local Hero

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, et al.

Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself...

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 085391130727
• Release Date: September 1999
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Bill Forsyth
• Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Norman Chancer, Peter Capaldi, Rikki Fulton, Alex Norton, Jenny Seagrove, Jennifer Black
• Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Anamorphic; NTSC; Dolby; Full Screen; Closed-captioned; Widescreen; Color; DVD
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"