Local Hero (Criterion Collection)

Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton MacKay, Mark Knopfler. An offbeat comedy about an oil-company employee who is assigned to buy up a small Scottish coastal village needed as a refinery site. Written and directed by Bill Forsyth. New 2k digital restoration with a new conversation between director Forsyth and film critic David Cairns, a "making-of" documentary featuring interviews with actors Burt Lancaster and Peter Riegert, an essay by film scholar Jonny Murray and more on 2 DVDs or 1 Blu-ray Disc. 1983/color/111 min/PG/widescreen.