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©2019
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet
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Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss 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
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983
Director-approved special edition features: New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray, New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns, Shoooting from heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges, episode of The south bank show, the making of :Local hero, 1983 interview with Rorsyth, plus an essay by film scholar Jonny Murray
Editor, Michael Bradsell ; music Mark Knopfler
Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton MacKay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi
Rating: PG
Blu-ray, region A, wide screen (1.78:1); requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)