Is Local Hero actually good?

Local Hero sits in the 89.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.4% of them.

How does Local Hero compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Local Hero lands in the 89.2% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Local Hero's score based on?

191 calibrated reviewers stand behind Local Hero's score.

1983

global pct

89.4

Film · 1983 · Films · 1980s

Local Hero

Name: Local Hero
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1983

Scored from 191 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

89.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

89.2%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

98.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

191 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An ambitious American oil executive is sent by his eccentric Houston-based boss to a small Scottish coastal village to buy up the land for a refinery. As he negotiates with the surprisingly eager locals, the quirky community and the haunting beauty of the place begin to work an unexpected change on him.

Local Hero (1983) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Its comedy subtype is Dramedy.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 500 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 191 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 197 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.