Local Hero - Final Scene & Credits (Mark Knopfler - Going Home)

[@ghostlight1]

Whenever I come home from somewhere, back to an empty house, exactly as I left it, I feel 'unanchored'. I realise that the place I have just come back from has affected me, sometimes only slightly, and life is not the same as it was when I left. I call this the Local Hero Effect. I absolutely adore this movie and try to watch it at least a couple of times a year.

[@DougS-kb8fx]

I like it - the Local Hero Effect. The melancholy of Mac is so absolutely poignant. Shame so many people are unaware of this masterpiece of a movie, but I suppose it was meant for our little club.

[@milkaluzardo4948]

Hace mucho tiempo q busco está película en internet para verla y no lo he podido lograr. Alguien me puede ayudar? Gsssssss

[@jenniferweston7621]

I know exactly what you're talking about.

[@bwilderd5082]

One of the best little known films of all time! A treasure.

[@timothyoherlihy5391]

Sir I have travelled much and as soon as I arrived home I would spend 2 days writing everything I experienced as the feelings were still in ones heart. Like you I learned :before I would leave a place I would try and bring it home with me, looking around, smelling and hearing everything knowing within hours one would get in a plane and nothing, the landscape, language, food and spirit would be totally lost. The tangible things which one brings back lose their magic on one's desk but somehow something survives in one's heart and soul. You expressed it so well I thought it was a poem. Well done. You are clearly a romantic poet at heart. I tell peole to watch this film :it represents the Ireland I grew up in, in the seventies and 80 '. It makes me want to go to Scotland and hear some old man in croaky voice sing' Flower of Scotland '.

[@sosagecaserol6675]

As a native Scottish islander, the idea of leaving this place for an American city turns my stomach. This scene is so poignant and leaves me ever so grateful to the natural beauties of my home.

[@jamessykes249]

Especially Houston. :)

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

Scotland has a lot of beauty but America also has incredible beauty including some areas of big cities. Edinburgh has a lot of bad spots. No place is perfect.

[@davecoalwood9487]

❤

[@stgodless]

Haven't seen the movie yet but I get the idea. I guess at the end of the day home is where you left it at..

[@beagle7622]

Scotland is unexpectedly quiet, that was my lasting impression. A little like New Zealand & Tasmania ( in Australia) . I fell in love with the place.

[@davidedwards8365]

Simply one of the most perfect film endings of all time. Utter magic ❤

[@KatherineScharansky]

Yes, such a gentle and subtle film - very amusing and believable story. Well observed characters. And, at the end you KNOW he's going to get the next flight back to Scotland, don't you? Wonderful score by Mark Knopffler, too!

[@laser48]

I still get chills when Mac looks out at Houston in the night. That little village in Scotland with that beautiful beach - how could you not think about going back?

[@HarvestHome2000]

@@Codzilla71 Gordon Urquhart: "Haven't you heard? We're going to be rich. We won't have anywhere to call home, but we'll be stinkin' rich."

[@pepeski1]

I think that Mac comes back...

[@naturalfibres]

No idea why -but this is my favourite film and my favourite music ever. Absolutely love it. Love Scotland - love Knopfler- brilliant!

[@saadkhatib3456]

how many of us were in this situation when like him we stood in the balcony looking at the vast horizon feeling how empty and lonely this world could be .

[@ues5587]

i love that scene b/c you can feel the houston heat, the exhilaration and the letdown of coming home after an adventure. anyone who lives in a big city and has traveled for work knows that feeling, it doesn't happen every time, but when it does, it leaves you with an instant longing to go back.

[@evanklein3549]

I've experienced that empty feeling of returning home to everyday, mundane life after a wonderful vacation/trip......a longing to go back to something different and fresh.

[@TralfazConstruction]

Atlanta, Georgia, August 2005.

[@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos]

@@evanklein3549 Yep! That's for sure. I live a pretty mundane life as a railroad mechanic. Always banging around on equipment. A lot of the time it's fun, but sometimes it can be agonizingly tough trying to fix something for hours on end. I'm also a railfan (meaning that I like to watch trains) in my spare time. The railroad life is mundane, but that's the way of life for me.

[@fljq]

No words. Just meaning. Pure cinema

[@AleAlejandro44]

Just watched it for the first time, and god this ending hit me so hard out of no where. Great film.

[@stewartmurray4658]

Such a underrated film. I live in Scotland but still it stirs the emotions.

[@SunTeleLeo]

Stewart Murray totally agree

[@Exparcelman]

I visited Pennan a few years ago, a magical place. My holiday if a life time would be spending a week at Crovie just down the road. I may be an Englishman but this film makes me wish I was a Scot.

[@SayMagnaFeek]

I absolutely love this gem of a film! The charm of the people and the town just wash over you. No special effects -- just sensational writing, directing, and acting. Fantastically beautiful magical film!

[@Exparcelman]

Prob the best film ever made.

[@SEGoddard]

+Exparcelman Undoubtedly

[@thattrainguy]

Exparcelman agreed

[@00bikeboy]

So nice to meet other fans of this gem of a movie.

[@keithbarclay3677]

Lost count how many times I’ve watched this film it’s my favourite film ever

[@Liza-sf5fz]

Definitely the best film ever made.

[@yettsoman4364]

As others have said, one of the best film endings EVER! You kept ALL the credits and music in too... right to the final drum fill 👏👏👏

[@pheart2381]

Such a sense of longing and homesickness in that music.

[@saiyansomething73]

There has never been a better fusion of movie and music in a movie. Mark Knopfler's soundtrack acts as a narrator or maybe a Greek chorus to the movie, giving scenes emotional subtext and greater impact. I saw it when it first came out on VHS and has been one of my favorite films ever since. Nothing short of perfection.

[@manjaganj]

This soundtrack was the first CD my parents ever bought. I was four years old and I've been listening to it ever since.

[@HarvestHome2000]

This reduces me to a blubbering wreck every time I see it. Can there ever have been a finer portrayal of loneliness in the history of cinema? And then it suddenly shifts to uplifting mode with an insanely beautiful piece of music, which brings back wonderful memories of Newcastle United celebrating promotion to the Premier League in 1993 by beating Leicester City 7-1!

[@SPAGETT]

I ordered the blu-ray of Local Hero and watched it purely because the theme is played at Newcastle United home matches. What a wonderful gem of a film.

[@kevinchambers17]

For Mark Knopfler, for Local Hero the movie, and for the Toon ! It''s our family tradition to play Going Home when anyone of us comes home from a long time away. Scuse me while get a wee bit emotional ! For aye Scotland - and I wish I was at the Gallowgate End at St James Park - ho'way the lads !

[@KimDryden19]

Love you! You have just described what I've been experiencing since the movie was first released and I went to a tiny theater with my Dad and saw it as a kid... Was unable to describe same. Cheers!

[@fraser_mr2009]

movies in genera back then were better. the were made for adults. and they were made to play on your emotions, stick in your head: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSnq2l8hKqSfc0 my dads generation of movies the soundtracks were masterpieces of emotional music not silly pop songs or some generic loud noise when you watch these movies you forget that it's only a movie.

[@fraser_mr2009]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mX_UpKd4qtxokLs watch the acting here. you feel bad for a fictional character.

[@garrison6863]

That ending was added on during editing. The film was supposed to end with Riegert looking out over the city. But the studio wanted something more punchy. So Forsythe added that last shot with the sound of the phone. perfect.

[@terrycollins748]

Finally! I saw this in a theater originally, and remembered the phone ringing at the end. But every time I've watched the movie since, there was no ring, just the music. I watched it tonight on DVD and heard no ring. I was beginning to think I had just imagined it because it seemed so appropriate.

[@thescreenwriter03]

That last shot is a puzzle of its own.

[@jenniferweston7621]

Forsythe made an excellent choice.

[@jenniferweston7621]

@@terrycollins748 Gee, without the phone ringing the whole point is lost. How could anyone think it was a good idea to take it out?

[@terrycollins748]

@@jenniferweston7621 I've since learned that I can no longer hear high pitched sounds, thus I can not hear the phone ringing. But I know it's there. I have never seen this ending without weeping for the shear beauty of it.

[@stephensutton4666]

This has to be one of my all time favourite films

[@SunTeleLeo]

I must have watched this film a 100 times it's so .... subtle ... pure gold

[@keithbarclay3677]

Alexey cherniak me too totally agree

[@philandtrish]

I haven't watched it as many times as you, but it is my favorite movie. Subtle and pure gold. Perfect.

[@Sparky-ov1ot]

A 100 times? I've told you a million times not to exaggerate! LOL

[@douglasfernandes9969]

the film is good but this song is unforgettable a great classic by Mark Knoplfer.

[@1stguageinc409]

Here, 2020, Covid lockdown.. Thank Heaven for this Film. I watch it every couple years. If i had a funeral, I'd need the theme played there. And how well does it stand the proverbial Test of Time. When have we EVER watched a 25+ yr old movie that was enchanting and completely relevant. Here it is, if you havent seen it.

[@colinwilliams5249]

To walk on Camusdarach beach (Arisaig) in the footsteps of McIntyre and look out across the glorious beach to the inner Hebrides looking for Marina is breathtaking 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Perthshire]

That final scene gets me every time. Mac wants to be back in Scotland.

[@bentompkins7854]

He could do little bits of business...

[@henryhammond7393]

That phone booth scene tells you he’ll be back.

[@nicolab2075]

​@@henryhammond7393I don't think he will. He'll mean to, and he'll tell his wife and kids all about it, and tell them he'll take them one day, but it won't happen. Then, one day when he's 72, he'll get a postcard of the village from one of his grandkids saying 'isn't this the place you were always talking about?' And he'll cry then, I think.

[@henryhammond7393]

@@nicolab2075 … congratulations. You made the sad stark realist ending even more sad and stark realist.

[@nicolab2075]

@@henryhammond7393 I told you I was British without telling you I was British 😁

[@Taghkanic]

One of the most powerful two minutes in film. And I know few people who have seen it.

[@scneese64]

I'm so glad that they cast Peter Riegert in this film..he has truly been my favorite actor..this film is nothing short of movie perfection at the highest level..saw it in 1983 I believe, purchased vhs tape.still have it.works great. bought the soundtrack to the movie, etc. I laughed, cried, laughed, cried...truly a movie about humanity & love of people. I will love this movie to my dying day, that's how I've felt about it since 1983!! Again, thank you for making this film..even if Burt Lancaster would not lower his pay of 2 million dollars I believe & the film budget was I think only 6 million! It was so worth it! Love to all Suzanne Neese Idaho

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

This film is one of my all to.e favorites! Right at the top. It is so beautifully filmed with great, subtle humor and a great affection for the quaint life in this Scottish town. I'vw been to Scotland once when I was a young teen. I remember staying for 2 nights in a town called Crail and it had the same charm of this great film. I fondly remember it 40+ years later.

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

Sorry for the mistakes.

[@marywatkins6798]

I read Hollywood studio execs wanted the ending changed to happy. Mac going back to Scotland or some such thing. Forsyth insisted no, then came up with the red phone booth ending. He remembered he had this phone booth shot and added the phone ringing. Perfect end to a unique, quirky film. I love this film.

[@mwhite6522]

Many have said the part where he walks out on to his balcony is the saddest second-to-last shot in all cinema.

[@micheleoliveti4975]

A very underrated film, a little masterpiece.

[@Weezer1801]

This scene gets me. It's beautiful.

[@charliestozz]

My favourite film. Had the pleasure of visiting the beaches where this is set a few times. Running and hiking the West Coast thinking of this classic the full time.

[@hitomi1341]

Thank you ! ありがとう！ 監督やキャストの方々のやさしさが伝わってきます。 この映画は私の宝物。 いついつまでも永遠です。 ありがとうございます。

[@mattpierce1795]

Watched this movie for the first time. Absolutely loved it

[@hwyfan]

This scene was one of the very first ones filmed during production. Peter Riegert had not been to Scotland yet, but he plays the moment so poignantly. This is one of the memorable endings in film.

[@JimmySteller]

That really speaks volumes. He hadn't even been to the place he'd fallen in love with, but he was still able to sell the scene as well as he did.

[@jammiedodger]

And yet he has pictures

[@derekmeek1891]

Visited Pennan three years ago, Beautiful little place.

[@sk065]

Home is where the heart is.

[@joaofernando9335]

Sean Kennedy ✌🏻️🌾✨😉

[@Andyhoffman98]

How I feel. I will return to the UK one day.

[@16mmguy]

No question this is the best film ever made. Great writing, direction and casting, beautiful photography. Mark Knopfler’s score is perfect. The film is acted low key, which makes it more natural. This movie is one of a kind.

[@stans945]

One of the best endings to any movie.

[@johntrucano8186]

My favorite movie of all time.

[@FilmNav]

Probably one of the best shots to end a movie. Will someone ever answer that phone? Gets me every time I watch it.

[@RockyG1978]

It's everything. Going home. That feeling of home. It kills me every time. I live in a big city. I am from a small town. This is what it feels like, such ennui.

[@ziraffa5364]

Exactly how I felt when I was in the van pulling out of the O'Hare airport after returning from the Masai Mara in Africa....those gorgeous giraffes were thousands of miles away along with the wonderful villagers I came to love. Only buildings and brown cold landscape was now before me.

[@donnazellman5902]

And yet, Chicago is beautiful to a lot of people as well tho

[@lapshin]

A touching, deeply moving scene that caps a perfect little film. This is how you end a movie. Probably the hardest thing to do is a proper ending to a film, and Bill Forsyth managed to pull off his version of an Antonioni or a Tarkovsky ending that makes your heart skip a beat and wrecks you emotionally (but in a good way) for a few days afterwards. Just a gem. Thank you for uploading this. :)

[@alokmtu]

Such an underrated and amazing movie! Thanks for posting this. That ending always gets me and Dire straits. Phew!

[@kobyashimaru1353]

Magical special movie, and one of the best end scenes in history. One of the few times studio meddling improves a scene

[@davidparry8514]

just breaks your heart

[@garronborkum1562]

Great movie ,great music. wonderful acting.

[@stans945]

Citizen Kane, Shawshank, Gone with the Wind, The Third Man, etc all great films but this is my favourite of all time and so proud to be Facebook friends with Peter Riegert and his partner Cornelia.

[@idunno4773]

such a wonderful film.

[@umbertocalvini7429]

I'm a huge fan from San Francisco! I'd 💙 to visit Pennan someday! ☮️ on earth & be safe everyone! 👏👍💪🤗👊

[@LazlosPlane]

Brilliantly planned and executed scene. A genuine little masterpiece of film-making. Bravo. Freakin' goddam BRAVO.

[@carolynreed3067]

YES. Best film EVER.

[@berwickboy316]

This music was used as the closing theme for a local midlands BBC phone in show which I used to listen to many years ago , which finished around midnight and i listened every night as i had just lost a my dad and found it hard to sleep so this is a special song for me....also in those days people spoke to each other , no texts or whatever but that`s for a different setting then this !! PS The DJ was John Taynton

[@samconduct1356]

If you live in a city or large town and ever find yourself in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland for the first time you'll have your heart and emotions stolen away by the simplicity and raw beauty of those places. You'll want to go back as soon as you get back to your home. I remember my first visit to Skye, when I got home I immediately rang the owners of the cottage I had stayed in and booked up accommodation for the following year. Simplicity.

[@kathrynillsley7557]

This is one of my favourite films. If there was only one I could take to a desert island it would be this one

[@stans945]

My favourite too. Had a lovely letter from Peter Riegert last month.

what did riegert say?

[@bristleconepinus2378]

Once you fall from paradise it's hard as hell to get back.

[@michaelvout7813]

This is the very essence of what the movie is about

[@rudigerorth6388]

A great movie, a great sound track and the even greater Scottish shore..... This is one of he movies our kids should have seen instead of the American blockbusters. It is a movie full of wisdom

[@paulkerrigan4051]

A beautiful movie, with a truly tragic ending. After all that Mac has seen and experienced, he's forced to return to his worthless life in Houston. And when he calls his old friends, there's no-one there to pick up. Dagger!

[@sparetomato]

iPod Touch 5 and that there is the beauty of this moment... we are left to make up our own minds as to what happens next. Who even says Mac is the one phoning? (Although I'd argue that with the lingering shot of the phone in Mac's apartment strongly suggests it is). I'd like to think he does return for the "simpler" life in Scotland though.

[@elizabethgilmore-duddy4058]

My thoughts exactly! There's no way he doesn't go back. That's why he doesn't take his coat off. :-)

[@That_Random_Bloke]

Paul Kerrigan Really? I interpreted it as he’s calling to make plans to return.

[@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos]

Paul Kerrigan: I feel that sentiment exactly about a place I used to visit.

[@nicolab2075]

​@@That_Random_BlokeI don't think he expects anyone to answer. I think he just wants to feel a connection with the place he had to leave behind.

[@andrewkeeton5040]

Fabulous theme, great movie, well worth watching.

[@fanwithnoname]

My favourite film of all time

[@spnhm34]

The best bit of many many great bits from my favourite film. David Puttnam, I salute you

[@kobyashimaru1353]

Have you seen his bafta acceptance speech? The man is total class

[@donfreeman686]

In case you don’t know, Mark Knopfler, who scored this film, was born in Scotland. His music is the best I have ever heard. Look him up.

[@lonestar6709]

A Polish Jewish Geordie, born in Scotland. Quite a fella is Mark.

[@paulaisomura4894]

Lone Star Father Hungarian Jewish, mother English from Newcastle.

[@philandtrish]

I appreciate your comment Don, but I hope no one has to look him up! Mark Knopfler is one of the all-time greats!

[@flyoverbrand]

A sweet sad ending appreciated by those who have experienced their own reluctant goodbyes.

[@hoopenhanger]

Coming home to an empty apartment after being away for a while is really quite depressing.

[@sannox01]

+hoopenhanger But not when you have Mark Knopfler playing :-)

[@sannox01]

I'll take Scotland over a high-rise pad in Houston, even if a Porshe was on offer as well :-)

[@ghostlight1]

@@sannox01 Really? There's no finance left on it; it's pure ownership!

[@sosagecaserol6675]

Amazing. You know he didn’t expect to have been enthralled in such a magical life changing adventure but that’s Scotland for you lol

[@stans945]

Amazing how many rate this the greatest movie ever made, including me, much as I love Shawshank Redemption, etc and many of the other contenders.

[@bobcole5424]

My favorite film as well. ❤️❤️

[@michaelj.lebeau4593]

A magical movie.

[@beanie4882]

I can say for a fact everyone who is a fan of NUFC is a fan of this song

[@markhodgson2348]

This gets me every time

[@gregorykillen4564]

Brilliant song and brilliant movie ........this is perfect if your locked away for the Covid-19

[@antonialopezexposito]

Después de tantos años me pone la piel de gallina eterna amo a la música mi música saludos❤

[@herbertvonzinderneuf8547]

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who cry during this....and dead people

[@JohnAnderson-ms2cn]

I cry every time

[@davidfraser748]

The movie might have not been the same if it wasn't knopflers music.

[@josedacunhafilho]

Right, and The Leopard wouldn't be the same without Nino Rota's music. Your point? The film and the music were the director's choice; they are are a part of the same thinking. It's like saying, La Dolce Vita wouldn't be the same without Mastroianni.

[@chachi9257]

@@josedacunhafilho shut the fuck up

[@kevinmcdonald6477]

@@josedacunhafilho I think William Shatner would have been better than Mastroainni.

[@stirlingnoh8487]

The smell of the place is what does him in. So true.

[@markhodgson2348]

Beautiful atmosphere

[@alexchernyaev5529]

What a music!!!

[@martinb.770]

On the rare occasions, when I travelled longer than a week, I started this as a kind of ritual, coming through the door, starting this tune (if possible in this slightly faster rythm than the OST CD version) and stepping out on the balcony (just, that there's no mentionable skyline)

[@cheeseandonions9558]

So alien, but it also so gorgeous... Like landing on another planet...

[@lapshin]

A thing of beauty :)

[@annegeoffgullon8072]

Considering Bill Forsth wanted to leave it just with Mac looking lonely out at Houston, it's one of the few times a studio overrule has actually worked. They wanted him to shoot a happy ending (which would've been completely crass) so as a compromise, he used a longshot of the jetty and phonebox they already had kicking around and added the ring. So, you get the ultimate optimist/pessimist test - if you're an optimist, someone will pick up the phone - followed by Knopfler's beautifully matched and matchless Highland Blues. If this film doesn't make you cry happy tears, you should get yourself checked for a pulse.

[@sebastianbieber2099]

I love this movie

[@charliestozz]

Anyone looking for something similar should watch Northern Exposure the Alaskan series. Was definitely inspired by this film the doctor in it even looks very similar to Local Hero main character.

[@chrishall7915]

Nice ending. I can relate to it

[@miglena2s]

When the late evening phone call brings the Light of all the Mornings after....... ❤

[@Andyhoffman98]

This is me after leaving the UK early for study abroad and coming back early to Indiana, America early due to COVID in March. I’ll be back.

[@chrishall7915]

Brilliant ending

[@Expectadorable]

Gracias. Lo comparto.

[@tallpaul521]

@hwyfan Just wondering about this great scene and how you knew the shooting sequence. I'm in Houston and a friend's oil company office was used for the boardroom scene, where Lancaster falls asleep.

[@KingCharltonHeston]

Love that music.

[@MasterBoydo]

KingCharltonHeston it’s called Going home by mark knopfler

[@jacklondon565]

The best

[@jamescollinson2456]

The music here and entire musical score for Local Hero was composed and arranged by Glasgow native Mark Knopfler, co-founder of Dire Straits.

[@hwyfan]

@tallpaul521 It was listed in IMDB. At that point, producers had not yet come to terms with Burt Lancaster, so I suppose they filmed what they could prior to moving production to Scotland.

[@user-sy9jn2zf8m]

Still struggling to find something bad about Scotland. Don't think it's possible. Even the weather. I visited recently and it was sunny and 25°c. I may be technically English but I'll always be Scottish at heart 💙

[@glasbarry]

Brilliant scene.

[@THEBIGAL513]

My favorite guys film. The final scene is my favorite closing scene from any movie. It captures exactly what it is like to be a single guy coming home alone.

[@timdevereux9097]

The ending is unclear. Does he go back to Scotland or is the phone call just a way of reconnecting with friends? Either way, a profound ending.

[@albalass54]

In my top 5 favorite movies of all time. I watch it maybe once every month or two just to feel..........everything this movie moves in me.