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Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Peter Capaldi, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster. Produced by David Puttnam, the film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to ...
Bill Forsyth returns to the romantic comedy of 'Gregory's Girl.' 20 years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
17 de feb. de 2023 · Local Hero is a very easy film to love. Forsyth has a keen understanding of Scottishness, both as it’s presented to the rest of the world and in how locals confront those expectations. The humor ...
Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery.
6 de ago. de 2023 · WILLIAM LOUIS BILL FORSYTH William Louis "Bill" Forsyth, of Kapolei, Hawaii, passed away on July 20th, 2023 at age 76 at Queens Medical Center West, Ewa Beach, Hawaii, He was a resident of Kapolei. Bill was born in Manhattan Beach, California on December 2nd, 1946, but called Placerville, California, home, where he graduated from Ponderosa High School with the first graduating class in 1964.
26 de may. de 1982 · Gregory's Girl: Directed by Bill Forsyth. With John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D'Arcy, Clare Grogan. Gregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate.
Bill Forsyth was born William David Forsyth in Glasgow on 29 July 1946 and educated at Knightswood School. On leaving school, aged 17, he answered an advertisement for a "Lad required for film company" and spent the next eight years making short documentary films. Leaving documentary production in 1977, Forsyth wrote the scripts for Gregory's ...
