Local Hero
Local Hero

Local Hero

  • 1983 film

A Texas oil executive is sent to Scotland to buy up an entire village for the site of a new refinery... but all does not go to plan. Stars Peter Riegert and Denis Lawson.

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That Sinking Feeling

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Gregory's Girl. Image shows from L to R: Susan (Clare Grogan), Gregory Underwood (John Gordon Sinclair). Copyright: Lake Films
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Gregory's Girl

Love is a game of two halves in this endearing eighties tale of an adolescent crush.

Comfort And Joy
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Comfort And Joy

1984 Scottish film in which Bill Paterson stars as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him.

Gregory's Two Girls. Copyright: Film4
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Gregory's Two Girls

Bill Forsyth's sequel to Gregory's Girl sees Gregory Underwood, now a teacher at his Cumbernauld alma mater, caught between two girls.

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