TotalTelly.co.uk
Devoted to Popular, Cult and Retro TV
Local Hero [1983]
![Local Hero [1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MIueS1JUL._SL160_.jpg)
RRP: £15.99
Our Price: £9.98 (subject to change)
Comfort and joy from this movie
Review date: 2008-06-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
Where to begin? This is almost the perfect feel good movie. It's gentle whimsical way is so resonant of earlier Ealing comedies, but I personally think lifts that genre to another level. Always keep an eye out in the background in this movie - there always seems to be something going on. Then you have the running gag about the young punk lad on his motorbike - "Ricky's on the road tonight, you have to look both ways...", even down to the scraggy old dog that always seems to be asleep in the middle of the road - it is all here in subtle glory.
Peter Riegert is wonderful as the American fish out of water who grows to love the place he has been sent to. Peter Capaldi looks like the disjointed man - how can anyone look that ungainly? Fulton MacKay is a real treasure as old Ben Knox and Dennis Lawson is subtly hilarious as amorous hotel owner, accountant and occasional taxi driver Gordon Urquhart. Even Burt Lancaster is not too stilted as Felix Happer.
For me, the finest moments come during the ceilidh, and not from the major characters. Just watch out for the two old farmers discussing their futures. Brilliant.
And to cap it all off, you have Jenny Seagrove in a swimsuit. How could I not give it five stars? Cuddle up with someone special and just let it wash over you.
Similar Products
- Whisky Galore (Single Disc) [1949]
- Restless Natives [1985]
- Comfort And Joy [1984]
- Gregory's Girl [1981]
- Local Hero
Reviews
Best feel good movie....ever!
Review date: 2008-06-06 Rating: 10 out of 10
25 years on, this movie still stands up as a great film.
It is a feel good movie but with a wealth of dry, subtle wit, fantastic locations & great characters.
It's just perfect.
A feel good - go there movie...but please don't!....
Review date: 2008-05-10 Rating: 10 out of 10
...because to many people will simply sp-oil it's character...still, if you really must...leave only yout footprints.
I first saw this fine film in 1983 and visited the beach location within weeks! It's an awe inspiring place , which is beautifully served by the light, and the cinematography in the film. The movie is quirky, and inoffensive. A real gem. The hard nosed Texas oil man soon captivated by the community, and the timeless lure of the remote Scottish Highlands.
A plot still relevant today...as the oil is costing us a fortune..but still, not quite, the earth.We are greener...and not quite so green.
With superb casting...the locals all seem so...local, and a script of simplicity the guile and olde worlde cunning of the grasping villagers warms the heart...at least it would if you couldn't see them about to make the biggest mistake of their lives!
The village scenes were shot more than a hundred and fifty miles from the beach itself...it took me a little longer to visit Pennan...but I made it finally in 2006. A dramatic location at the foot of huge cliffs, where the churning sea regularly crashes onto the main street...which as main streets go is not very 'main' at all...save for the manic moped which punctuates almost every village scene.
The music is splendid , Big Burt is just right for his almost cameo role and Fulton Mackay and his upturned boat style hovel on the sand manage to capture the essence of a des.res.
'Local Hero' will charm you..it will draw you in. Put the 21st. century into abeyance for a couple of hours and savour the flavour of a time that's only just slipped away. You might not have noticed...this film is a reminder.
a perfect movie
Review date: 2008-05-03 Rating: 10 out of 10
Now and again there comes a film that leaps into your heart, a film to take to your desert island and a film that becomes a life long friend. Local Hero is one such film. It's an unashamedly, brilliantly British comedy following in the footsteps of the Ealing Comedies, yet like the Ladykillers etc still has universal appeal. It's the tale of loneliness, of wanting to belong somewhere and finding that place. It looks magnificent (the Scottish scenery will have you on the next train to the Highlands) and it sounds... oh the music!!!! A glorious score and what an ending. If your not smiling back the tears as Mark Knopfler's guitar sweeps you into the end credits then some thing's wrong.
Films don't get much better than this.
"And are there two g's in 'bugger off'"?
Review date: 2008-03-17 Rating: 10 out of 10
A charming film, almost perfcet from location to casting to plot. A jaded American businessman journeys to Scotland to take advantage of the locals and ends up falling in love with the village and the quiet life.
If you want to put a smile on your face, this is the way to do it.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Jenny Seagrove
Fulton Mackay
Denis Lawson
Peter Riegert
Burt Lancaster
Director(s):
Recording label: 4dvd
Manufacturer: 4dvd
EAN: 6867449007694
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2008-05-12
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 107 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1983