Directed by:
Bill ForsythScreenplay:
Bill ForsythCinematography:
Chris MengesComposer:
Mark KnopflerCast:
Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, Jenny Seagrove, John Gordon Sinclair, Alex Norton, John M. Jackson, Jonathan Watson, Sandra Voe (more)VOD (2)
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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 enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens—and Texas starts to feel awfully far away. Packed with a near nonstop stream of droll one-liners and deadpan gags, this enchanting cult hit finds Forsyth surveying the idiosyncrasies of small-town life with the satirical verve of a latter-day Preston Sturges, arriving at a sly commentary on conservation, corporate greed, and the legacies we leave behind. (Criterion)
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Local Hero
Label: Vertigo Records
Year: 2000
Country: France
Format: CD
Length: 43:33
1. | The Rocks And The Water | Mark Knopfler | 03:29 |
2. | Wild Theme | Mark Knopfler | 03:39 |
3. | Freeway Flyer | Mark Knopfler | 01:49 |
4. | Boomtown (Variation Louis' Favourite) | Mark Knopfler | 04:07 |
5. | The Way It Always Start | Mark Knopfler | 04:06 |
6. | The Rocks And The Thunder | Mark Knopfler | 00:40 |
7. | The Ceilidh And The Northern Lights | Mark Knopfler | 03:55 |
8. | The Mist Covered Mountains | Mark Knopfler | 04:59 |
9. | The Ceilidh: Louis' Favourite Billy's Tune | Mark Knopfler | 03:40 |
10. | Whistle Theme | Mark Knopfler | 00:52 |
11. | Smooching | Mark Knopfler | 05:03 |
12. | Stargazer | Mark Knopfler | 01:34 |
13. | The Rocks And The Thunder | Mark Knopfler | 00:41 |
14. | Going Home (Theme Of "Local Hero") | Mark Knopfler | 04:59 |
Mark Knopfler: Screenplaying
Music from Local Hero, Cal, The Princess Bride, Last Exit to Brooklyn
Label: Warner Bros. / Wea
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 01:11:39
1. | CAL: Irish Boy | Mark Knopfler | 04:39 |
2. | Irish Love | Mark Knopfler | 02:28 |
3. | Father And Son | Mark Knopfler | 03:27 |
4. | Potato Picking | Mark Knopfler | 02:08 |
5. | The Long Road | Mark Knopfler | 07:22 |
6. | LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN: A Love Idea | Mark Knopfler | 03:06 |
7. | Victims | Mark Knopfler | 03:33 |
8. | Finale | Mark Knopfler | 06:24 |
9. | THE PRINCESS BRIDE: Once Upon A Time... Storybook Love | Mark Knopfler | 04:00 |
10. | Morning Ride | Mark Knopfler | 01:36 |
11. | The Friends' Song | Mark Knopfler | 03:04 |
12. | Guide My Sword | Mark Knopfler | 05:11 |
13. | A Happy Ending | Mark Knopfler | 01:54 |
14. | LOCAL HERO: Wild Theme | Mark Knopfler | 03:39 |
15. | Boomtown (Variation Louis' Favourite) | Mark Knopfler | 04:08 |
16. | The Mist Covered Mountains | Mark Knopfler | 04:58 |
17. | Smooching | Mark Knopfler | 05:03 |
18. | Going Home (Theme) | Mark Knopfler | 04:59 |