Neon Dreams: LOCAL HERO (1983)

This January, Neon Dreams shoots straight for the heart with a rare screening of Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero—an effortlessly charming and delightfully odd gem that offers a perfect antidote to the winter SAD’s. The cinematic equivalent of a warm blanket on a cold night.

 

 

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. 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.

 

 

Poetic, emotional, and thoroughly hilarious—like a Preston Sturges film that traveled through time to the ’80s. Get ready to feel all the feels as you’re whisked away by Mark Knopfler’s seductive score and the Scottish Highlands’ breathtaking scenery for a true magic act of a film.