Local Hero (1983)

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Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

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Een vertegenwoordiger van een oliemaatschappij (Riegert) krijgt de opdracht om een klein Schots kustdorpje op te kopen: dat ligt namelijk op de plek waar hoognodig een raffinaderij moet worden gebouwd. Maar de man raakt steeds meer gecharmeerd door het dorpje en zijn bewoners, en begint zich af te vragen of de raffinaderij hier wel gebouwd moet worden.

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A Texas oil company attempts to buy out a Scottish fishing village for a refinery, and the result is utter confusion. One of the town's least prominent citizens owns a strategic piece of property which he refuses to sell. A warm, acclaimed comedy from writer/director Forsyth (GREGORY'S GIRL).

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