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Scotland, PA
- Director: Billy Morrissette
- Writer: William Shakespeare; Billy Morrissette
- Producer: Andrew Farkas; Raelle Koota
CGiii Comment
Shakespeare's MacBeth - badly updated and done all-American.
What a putrid premise.
And...it's all too painful - leave alone what is alone left - it just doesn't work - on any level.
Clumsy and hefty...with really bad wigs.
Who gave this nonsense the green light?
Trailer...
Trailer for Scotland, Pa. on TrailerAddict.
The(ir) Blurb...
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, 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 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 and a would-be fortune teller 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 sell the restaurant to the McBeths (they pay for it with the money they stole from Norm), business takes off.
Cast & Characters
James LeGros as Joe 'Mac' McBeth;
Maura Tierney as Pat McBeth;
Christopher Walken as Lieutenant McDuff;
Kevin Corrigan as Anthony 'Banko' Banconi;
James Rebhorn as Norm Duncan, Owner Duncan's Cafe;
Tom Guiry as Malcolm Duncan;
Amy Smart as Stacy;
Timothy 'Speed' Levitch as Hector;
Andy Dick as Jesse;
Geoff Dunsworth as Donald Duncan;
Josh Pais as Douglas McKenna;
Reed Rudy as Kevin 'Tanman' McKane;
John Cariani as Ed the 'not-too-bright' Cop;
David Wike as Jimmy McMann;
Nicola Lipman as Mrs. Lenox, Duncan's Waitress