FILM REVIEW - Local Hero

Description:
In the corridors of power at the giant American corporation Knox Oil and Gas, moves are afoot to build an oil refining plant at the remote Scottish coastal village of Ferness. Knox Chairman FELIX HARPER (Burt Lancaster) decides to send one of his executives to supervise the deal and MACINTYRE (Peter Riegert) is chosen in the mistaken belief that his name makes him Scottish.

After some delays in the Scottish mist MAC finally arrives in Ferness, where
GORDON URQUHART (Denis Lawson) greets
?BAFTA Awards 1984 - Best Direction (Bill Forsyth) ?National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1984 - Best Screenplay (Bill Forsyth) ?New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1983 - Best Screenplay (Bill Forsyth)