Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 02/08/2002(USA
Release Date: 04/01/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DS
Run Time: 104 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Showtime Entertainment
What happens if you take one of
William Shakespeare's darkest tragedies and move it to a burger joint in the early 1970s? The answer can be found in the satiric comedy
Scotland, PA, the first feature from writer and director
Billy Morrissette. Mac McBeth (
James LeGros) is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat (
Maura Tierney), who has a significant edge in the brains department. Pat is convinced she could do a lot better with the place than their boss Norm Duncan (
James Rebhorn) is doing, so she works up a plan to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the police off their trail. Though two stoners (
Andy Dick and
Timothy Speed Levitch) and a would-be fortune teller (
Amy Smart) warn Mac that bad luck awaits him, he gathers his courage and goes through with his wife's scheme. At first, things seem to have gone just as Pat hoped, and after Norm's sons (
Geoff Dunsworth and
Tom Guiry) sell the restaurant to the McBeths (they pay for it with the money they stole from Norm), business takes off. But vegetarian police detective McDuff (
Christopher Walken) is convinced there's foul play at the new center of the fast food universe, and when the McBeths fear that fry cook Banco (
Kevin Corrigan) knows more than he's letting on, Pat decides another murder is on the menu.
Scotland, PA premiered at the 2001
Sundance Film Festival; incidentally,
Shakespeare does receive screen credit for his contribution to the story.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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