Local Hero 1983 123movies

Watch: Local Hero 1983 123movies, Full Movie Online – Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scottish village to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the ‘Silver Dollar’ and can’t believe their luck. However, a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 24,436
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	82/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 265 Popularity: 9.746 | TMDB

Reviews:

Puttnam meets Forsyth and the result is intelligent whimsical splendour.
Eccentric Texan oil tycoon Happer, has his sights set firmly on the remote Scottish fishing village of Ferness for his next big refinery. He dispatches his number one negotiator Mac to close out the deal, but what Mac finds is a wonderful array of characters who are clued into his plans, and this coupled with the amazing lifestyle that Mac observes the people of Ferness leading, means things are not going to go as expected.

David Puttnam is known for producing the likes of Chariots Of Fire, The Killing Fields and Midnight Express, so how odd that he should team up with the director of off beat cult favourite Gregory’s Girl? Yet it’s a union that produces one of the 80s most adroit and more importantly…..appealing films of the decade. Laced with humour, surprises and the right balance of sentimentality, Local Hero is as much a film lovers movie as it is a film maker’s one.

Technical aspects of the film are excellent, the location work evokes the glories of Whiskey Galore!, where here the cinematography from Chris Menges is as good as British work goes, at times beautiful and at others quite wondrous, the Aberdeenshire location is a character all of it’s own, and it’s thru this that we perfectly understand the confliction that protagonist Mac goes thru. Local Hero contains little sub-plots that enhance the bigger picture, Happer’s running feud with his psychiatrist is wonderful cinema, a characters infatuation with an oceanologist has mermaid like whimsy, whilst blossoming friendships, that at first seem unlikely, then flesh out to become positively essential to the films success.

Looking back on it now it’s not hard to see why many American’s embraced this film on its release, it would have been so easy to paint the American characters as greedy pillagers of natures beauty, but here is one of Local Hero’s strengths, for the residents of Ferness are only too happy to grab the cash, nothing is ever quite as it would seem in Local Hero. There are no characters wasted, every single actor in the film, no matter how small the role, is as crucial as our main protagonists. For that reason alone I refuse to single out performances, my only minor quibble being that the big bloke playing Happer was so good I just wish the character could have had more screen time, but hey, it’s as minor as it gets. I must also mention Mark Knopfler’s gorgeously poignant score, warm and highly effective, it’s theme tune alone is out of the top draw.

Some harsh N/A critics of the film point to Local Hero owing a debt of gratitude to Powell & Presburger’s 1945 beloved picture, I Know Where I’m Going, yes that may well be, and for sure the P&P movie in its own right is truly wonderful, but I’ll be damned if Local Hero hasn’t got the better narrative! 9.5/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Bill Forsyth
Writer Bill Forsyth
Actors Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay
Country United Kingdom
Awards Won 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera J-D-C Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Kay Laboratories Ltd., London, UK (color)
Film Length 3,054 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 16 mm (Sweden), 35 mm