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Scotland | Small Town
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Best Direction | 1984 | Bill
Best Screenplay | 1984 | Bill
Top Ten Films | 1983
Best Screenplay | 1983 | Bill
Best Cinematography | 1984 | Chris
Best Editing | 1984 | Michael
Best Film | 1984 | David
Best Screenplay Original | 1984 | Bill
Best Score | 1984 | Mark
Best Supporting Actor | 1984 | Burt
Budget 4,200,000 USD
Box Office Collection 5,900,000 USD
After the movie came out, many people went in search of the village with the red phone booth. It can be found in the village of Pennan on the Moray Coast, Scotland.
The asteroid "7345 Happer" is named after actor Burt Lancaster's Happer character in this movie who is keen on astronomy. It also fulfilled Lancaster's wish to have a comet named after him.
The film's soundtrack scored by Mark Knopfler sold better than the movie itself.
Alex Norton remembers that Watt's line as Mac and Oldsen watch Marina swimming, "She's got a magnificent pair of lungs", had to be reshot endlessly as Peter Riegert and Peter Capaldi kept sniggering.
Writer-director Bill Forsyth said in "Local Hero: The Making of the Film" (1983) by Alan Hunter and Mark Astaire: "I saw it along the lines of a Scottish Beverly Hillbillies -- what would happen to a small community when it suddenly became immensely rich -- that was the germ of the idea and the story built itself from there. It seemed to contain a similar theme to Brigadoon (1954), which also involved some Americans coming over to Scotland, becoming part of a small community, being changed by the experience and affecting the place in their own way. I feel close in spirit to the Powell and Pressburger feeling, the idea of trying to present a cosmic viewpoint to people, but through the most ordinary things. And because both this film and I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) are set in Scotland, I've felt from the beginning that we're walking the same... treading the same water."
"Townsman: Are you sure there are two l's in 'dollar', Gideon? Gideon: Yes! An' are there two g's in 'bugger off'?"
"[approaching Ben Knox's beach shanty] Mac: Where's the door here? Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window. Mac: How do you do business with a man who has no door? Victor: The ethics are just the same."
