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(4.2) | 6 | 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.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 6 mentions » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Forsyth, Bill | Director | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Menges, Chris | — | main author | all editions | confirmed | Asante, Christopher | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Black, Jennifer | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bradsell, Michael | Editor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Capaldi, Peter | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Chancer, Norman | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Forsyth, Bill | Screenplay | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Fulton, Rikki | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Guthrie, Caroline | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jackson, John M. | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Knopfler, Mark | Composer | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lancaster, Burt | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lawson, Denis | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mackay, Fulton | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Menges, Chris | Cinematographer | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Norton, Alex | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Puttnam, David | Producer | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Riegert, Peter | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rozycki, Christopher | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Seagrove, Jenny | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sinclair, John Gordon | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Smith, Iain | Producer | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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The novalization of the film (ISBN 0140066608) is a book by David Benedictus. This is based on Bill Forsyth's screenplay of the move "Local Hero". | |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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(watched again a year later) I'd just watched 'You've Been Trumped' and I was struck by much the same story and location. Sadly, real life is not as good as fiction in this case. ( )