• Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Parody/Spoof, Farce
• Themes: Ladder to the Top, Nothing Goes Right, Crime Gone Awry
• Director: Billy Morrissette
• Main Cast: James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, Kevin Corrigan, James Rebhorn
• Release Year: 2001
• Country: US
• Run Time: 104 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

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

Cast

• James LeGros - Joe "Mac" McBeth
• Maura Tierney - Pat McBeth
• Christopher Walken - Lt. Ernie McDuff
• Kevin Corrigan - Anthony "Banko" Banconi
• James Rebhorn - Norm Duncan

Tom Guiry - Malcolm Duncan; Amy Smart - Stacy/Hippie; Timothy (Speed) Levitch - Hector/Hippie; Andy Dick - Jesse/Hippie

Credit

Billy Morrissette - Director; Billy Morrissette - Screenwriter; Jennifer Stewart - Production Designer; Wally Pfister - Cinematographer; Anton Sanko - Composer (Music Score); Richard Shepard - Producer; Shelley Nieder - Art Director; David C. Robinson - Costume Designer; Doug Johnston - Sound/Sound Designer; Adam Lichtenstein - Editor; Jonathan Stern - Producer; Karen J. Lauder - Executive Producer; Marcus Ticotin - Executive Producer; William Shakespeare - Play Author

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