Local Hero (DVD, 1999)

I loved this show. I had seen it before and wanted to own it. The dvd showed up in 5 days and was just fine. A lovely story with a great cast.

Local Hero is a classic film and one of Burt Lancaster's last films. Everyone should see it and own it. Thanks!

Bought the movie because I love the Local Hero song performed by Phil Coulter in the Celtic Thunder. I had never seen the movie before. The scenery was wonderful and the I felt like I was right there with the actors in a small community in Scotland. Plot was a little underdeveloped, but I still enjoyed the movie very much. All the actors were such likable characters. I felt like I got to know each one and that no one was an extra. A simpler place and time was very appealing. And of course the fantastic background theme music Local Hero was haunting and enjoyable.

The product arrived in a timely fashion and was as described. The movie juxtiposes the American ethic, which in reality means living to work with the Scottish ideal of working so you can live. in a soft, humurous. fashion that is very effective and gives much food for thought.

I absolutely love this movie, I have since I first saw it in 1984. Having just gotten my first computer I have been just looking around when this movie popped in my head. I looked around chose this company and received more than I expected, both regular and widescreen versions. Needless to say I am very happy with both the movie and transaction. Which was shipped lightning fast.

Happy with service. A favorite film, reminds me of the best of moviemaking and
a real human production. The company sent the film promptly and it arrived
in good shape.

About 2 years ago my rhuematologist told me about this movie when he realised I was from Scotland and wrote down the name of it for me on his prescription pad, but it took me 2 years to finally remember about it when I was looking at DVDs on ebay and up it popped.
Excellent heartwarming movie and it will always be a favorite of mine.
Thanks Ebay.
Amanda Davis

replaced a tape with a dvd of an old favorite....love the dvd early burt lancaster ecology type flick...first saw burt in the 50`s walking down victoria parade in suva,,,,there with jean simmons making the first blue lagoon....this new review process for ebay sucks,,,,do i need more words to express why i will now cut down a lot on ebay activity??

Remarkable older film that transports you to a wonderful old world locale in a very modern way. Truly original storyline with outstanding, quirky characters. Have had this on VHS for years, and was delighted to pick up this dvd at a very reasonable price

I was touched by this movie years ago and have been surprised by the number of people who never saw it or even heard of it; then I was pleasantly surprised to read so many film critics' good reviews. There should be a market for such sensitive treatment (with some minor qualms about uncharacteristically exaggerated inserts)of more filmable stories. Yes, some could call this merely a "feel-good" movie, but I found it quietly renews my faith that human nature is not necessarily a bad thing - the vast majority of news items to the contrary. Perhaps we need to appreciate the less momentous aspects of life more, as this movie shows, in order to enter the world at large and change the bad?

I have never received the item. I've been ripped off. Still not resolved with PayPal. I'm afraid to buy from EBay again.

Peter Reigart is the main star of this movie - although Burt Lancaster has a supporting role - and most of the other actors are unknowns. It is about a guy who works for a big oil company in Dallas who is sent to make a deal to buy an entire town on the coast of Scotland. He becomes involved in the lives of the locals who are charmingly eccentric - with a serious streak not to be ignored. This is NOT a comedy, not a tragedy, just a nice story that moves along and is well acted and written

This is an absolutely wonderful "little" movie. I have it in VHS but wanted the newest techology, so purchased it in DVD format.

A classic small film by Scotish director Bill Forsyth, "Local Hero" is the story of Big Oil and the small Scottish village whose harbor it wants to buy. Full of deadpan takes on loveable eccentrics, the ensemble cast (led by Burt Lancaster, a star-gazing oil executive) plays out a whimsical, detailed meditation on greed, solitude, small town politics and pleasures, the importance of place--and the mystery of trying to find one's place in the world. It's a kind of "Shangri-La" meets "Twin Peaks." Forsyth's fondness for the odd and arbitrary (there's a beautiful marine biologist with webbed toes) is gently unsettling and keeps this from becoming a simple morality play of us versus them, as the film deftly tacks between the real and the fantastic. In fact, its generous but never predictable heart makes what starts out like a light parable into something as richly complicated and elusive as a dream.
"Local Hero" is a precise and haunting film--one that gets better each time you watch it. It's unfortunate that Forsyth, afer directing several other highly original features ("Comfort and Joy," "Housekeeping," "Breaking In"), has stopped making movies. He appears convinced that movies are just not important enough to transcend their most common and commercial aims--to entertain through the manipulation of shallow emotions and ideas. This loss of faith in the medium has led to sporadic television work and a sense that the melancholy in his work is perhaps very much his own. At any rate, it's our loss.

I thought it was a waste of time. Not well done; bad acting all together.
Some good scenery in the movie though.