Local Hero (1983)
- Themes
- Community, Ecology, Interconnectedness
- A Houston oil executive is sent to a small
oceanside Scottish village to purchase the entire village with the
plan to destroy the village and the ecology of the beautiful beach
and bay that the village is located on in order to install a
gigantic oil tank storage facility. The Houston oil executive
ends up with a deep appreciation of the simple pleasures and
satisfactions of the human community in this village and contrasts
this community with the emptiness of his life in Houston. The
movie ends with a crusty old resident of the beach
"converting" the oil company CEO (played brilliantly by
Burt Lancaster) and the beach and village are saved. Great
soundtrack by Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits.) (Curtis Huber)
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