Local Hero. 06/18/2022 | 10m 13s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Local Hero. Up-and-coming Houston oil executive "Mac" MacIntyre (Peter Riegert) gets more than he bargained for wh ...

Marini, who is exec producing with Cotten, reported that the movie’s budget is under $500,000. “One of our dreams for Local Hero was always to eventually produce our own content,” he said.

In between a trip to Scotland, director Bill Forsyth's Local Hero lets viewers glimpse a bygone Bayou City of 40 years ago.

The movie “Local Hero,” shot in Houston in 1981 and released domestically in 1983, offered an amazing pedigree of talent, including producer David Putnam, fresh from winning an Academy Award ...

I also ask her, as someone who lives in the place that was the heart of Local Hero, why she thinks the movie is so powerful for many people – then and now.

The favorite movie of former Vice President Al Gore, Local Hero is the tale of fictional Knox Oil and Gas of Houston, which wants to buy a Scottish fishing village in order to build a massive ...

The 1983 Bill Forsyth movie Local Hero was set in Scotland, but had a universal story which won over film fans around the world.

Superfan Jonathan Melville takes an in-depth look at legendary Scottish comedy-drama movie Local Hero as its 40th anniversary approaches ...

Local Hero, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh - captivating musical with a harder edge New staging brings the iconic 1983 movie's themes and characters into sharper focus ...