What 1983 Scottish film, starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi and Burt Lancaster, was directed by Bill Forsyth with music by Mark Knopfler?
Local Hero David Greig, and will be directed by John Crowley. Local Hero Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, and Burt Lancaster. Produced by David Puttnam, the film is about an American oil company representative who is sent to the fictional village of Ferness on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property for his company. For his work on the film, Forsyth won the 1984 BAFTA Award for Best Direction. "Mac" MacIntyre (Peter Riegert) is a typical 1980s hot-shot executive working
Peter Riegert made his screenwriting and directorial debuts with "By Courier", based on a short story by O. Henry. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film and won him the Festival Award for Best First Feature at the Marco Island Film Festival. Riegert directed and co-wrote "King of the Corner", a 2004 film featured at the Newport Film Festival. It stars Peter Riegert and Isabella Rossellini, and includes Eric Bogosian, Dominic Chianese, Beverly D'Angelo and Rita Moreno. Riegert narrated the audiobook of Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", which was nominated for a 2008 Audie Award in