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Bill Forsyth - Local Hero (Collectors Edition) Bill Forsyth
An American oil company fixer is sent to Scotland to buy up an entire village to build a refinery. But the company man finds himself having a change of heart.
Happily, Forsyth’s gentle pacing and taste for surreal running gags survived the transition. The director is less concerned with plot than with incidental sketches celebrating the lovable traits of his gallery of dreamers and eccentrics, from Lancaster’s astronomy-obsessed tycoon to Peter Capaldi’s lovelorn linguist and Jenny Seagrove’s web-footed marine biologist. Dire Straits star Mark Knopfler made his film-composing debut with the synth-heavy score. Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going (1945) similarly depicts a careerist’s surrender to the charms of the west coast of Scotland, complete with exuberant ceilidh.
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