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Directors: Bill Forsyth Actors:
Burt Lancaster Peter Riegert Denis Lawson Fulton Mackay Peter Capaldi Jennifer Black Jenny Seagrove

Local Hero 1983

111 minutes

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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