An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Direction
Forsyth's deadpan Scottish humor that builds to genuine transcendence
Cinematography
Moray Firth locations so gorgeous they become a character
Score
Mark Knopfler's guitar whispers what characters can't say
Director
Bill Forsyth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burt Lancaster only agreed to play Happer after Forsyth sent him a letter saying 'I believe you are the only actor who understands what it means to want to own the sky.' Lancaster called it the best fan mail he ever received.
The village of Pennan (where most exteriors were shot) still gets tourists asking to use the red phone booth; locals installed one specifically because of the film. The movie essentially willed its own iconic prop into existence.
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