14/09/2026
Time is running out for you to get a ticket to our free screening of Local Hero at The Couper Institute this Saturday, as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival !
The film will be screened in the atmospheric main hall of the Couper Institute in partnership with Glasgow Life. Experience our new and improved screen and speaker equipment for the first time, generously funded by CALA Homes!
You are welcome to bring your own snacks, soft drinks or alcoholic drinks (18+) to enjoy during the film.
📍 The Couper Institute
📅 Saturday 19th September
🕚 Doors open 19:00. Film starts 19:30
🔞 Ages 10+
🎟 Free tickets available on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-hero-film-screening-at-the-couper-institute-tickets-1994995899439?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Local Hero (PG)
Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam. It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay. Riegert plays an American oil company representative who is sent to a village on the west coast of Scotland to purchase the town and surrounding property to build an oil refinery. The musical score was composed by Mark Knopfler.
"a fragment of cinematic whimsy—a genial dramatic comedy that defies both our expectations and those of the characters" - James Berardinelli
"Genuine fairy tales are rare; so is film-making that is thoroughly original in an unobtrusive way. Bill Forsyth's quirky disarming Local Hero is both." – Janet Maslin
"After making the grade internationally with the sleeper hit, Gregory's Girl, Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth has broken the sophomore sesh jinx the only way he could, by making an even better film ... Given a larger canvas, director Forsyth has in no way attempted to overreach himself or the material, keeping things modest and intimate throughout, but displaying a very acute sense of comic insight." – Todd McCarthy
