{"product_id":"local-hero-994","title":"Local Hero (#994)","description":"\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" class=\"product-summary\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocal Hero\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efollows 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. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens—and Texas starts to feel awfully far away. Packed with a near nonstop stream of droll one-liners and deadpan gags, this enchanting cult hit finds Forsyth surveying the idiosyncrasies of small-town life with the satirical verve of a latter-day Preston Sturges, arriving at a sly commentary on conservation, corporate greed, and the legacies we leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-feature-title-field=\"\" class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eDIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-special-features-field=\"\" class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudio commentary from 2018 featuring director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eShooting from the Heart,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 1985 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