After rave reviews from a Year in Cinema: 1983 book I would read in the high school library and growing up with my parents owning the Mark Knopfler soundtrack on CD, I finally watched Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero (1983) on a DVD I purchased, the prototypical ‘business man charmed by small town’/’fish out of water’ movie. As charming as promised, this film was goofier and more subtle in ways that I didn’t anticipate. Peter Riegret, Denis Lawson and Peter Capaldi were all great, particularly when the film was simply a bunch of swell chaps hanging about a magnificent shoreline in woolly jumpers. A rare movie that leaves you abuzz with positivity and good feeling afterwards. Recommended.
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