Movie Connections Local Hero

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  @GreasyFilms-qc1xo · 7 years ago

  Spent an evening getting drunk with Peter Riegert. Lovely man who considered this his best work.

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• BL

  @blackbird5634 · 3 years ago (edited)

  This movie pulled me out of a deep depression. I&apos;d keep it on in the apartment, in the background, and I knew every single line by heart. I found it first in some video store on VHS and I eventually bought a copy of it for about 99 cents, and I played it till the tape wore out and DVD had finally been invented.<br> I loved each character, and fell in love with the imaginary place and the sound track. How lovely.<br>*Educating Rita *The Sure Thing<br>*Lost In Translation *Farewell To The King<br>*Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence *Mediterraneo <br> I used these, and other masterpieces of cinema as stepping stones out of unhappiness and depression.

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• TE

  @terencehennegan1439 · 2 years ago

  It was a magical film, truly magical. Very moving.

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• CH

  @chicobicalho5621 · 3 years ago

  Ahead of its time, and now ageless. No doubt one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most beautiful

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• LA

  @LazlosPlane · 10 years ago

  The only film I can honestly say changed me. &nbsp; &nbsp;A masterpiece.

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• AL

  @aleblanc3547 · 2 years ago

  It surely deserves to be in the top 10 “hidden gems of a movie” list of all time.

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• PA

  @patmcstuff671 · 1 year ago

  The scene of him back in his sterile condo in Houston makes it clear where he wanted to be

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• VE

  @veslaskigirl · 7 years ago

  Thirty six years later this is still my most favorite movie of all time. I found it profound, touching and magical. &nbsp;A true masterpiece of work.

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• WM

  @WmRob · 2 years ago (edited)

  I first saw this film in 1983 as a favor to actor friend at the U of Texas. His pitch was &quot;you like Dire Straits, right?&quot; Well, he bought the tickets, too, but I really didn&apos;t want to go. That evening as I stood in a line that went around the block waiting to get in to see Local Hero, I could not get over the interest in a very obscure film but then again, on occasion, I&apos;d been wrong about things. By the time it was over, I was fighting back tears but also absolutely determined to go to that exact location in Scotland. In 1992, my wife and I drove down that very street and stayed at a BandB where we made sweet love on a tiny bed in a tiny room in the tiny village of Pennan. Our youngest was conceived in that BandB. Trouble was the walls were much thinner than we imagined and breakfast was very very awkward. Anyway, fast forward 30+ years and my daughters and wife insist on watching this movie together around Christmas time and it is always so satisfying to me to think that that friend, long since passed, turned me on to a movie that I&apos;ve now turned my children onto. Next year, we all will go and visit Pennan together along with our grandson.

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• MA

  @marklewist · 12 years ago

  The film is something higher than simply cinema, much, much more. Wonderful

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• -R

  @-Ricky_Spanish- · 3 years ago

  So glad this exists, this has been my favorite movie since I was a teenager. It&apos;s impossible to explain in words how magical it is.

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• BI

  @BinkyTheElf1 · 2 years ago

  Favourite movie ever. A+

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