LOCAL HERO (1983), 111 minutes.

As countless English monarchs have learned to their chagrin, acquiring Scottish real estate is never a simple thing. This is certainly the case in Bill Forsyth’s whimsical comedy about a Houston oil man’s attempt to purchase a bucolic fishing village for a new refinery and tanker terminal. Played by Peter Riegert, the early-80s yuppie finds a village only too willing to sell up and move out, but as he settles into the ways of the eccentric Highlanders, and the magic of the coastal mountains and northern sky take hold, complications arise that were never covered in his acquisition plan.

BE ADVISED-- This film is rated PG, with smoking, drinking, profanity, environmental avarice, and Scottish mermaids with advanced degrees.