Scotland, PA

Synopsis: Feature film. Black comedy version of Macbeth set in a 1970s Pennsylvania fast food burger stand. White trash Pat and Mac murder the owner, Norm, and establish a modern McDonald’s. The blood on Lady Macbeth’s hand becomes a grease spot, Duncan is dispatched in a fat fryer, Birnham Wood becomes a local wildlife preserve, the three witches are hippies,and Lady Macbeth, when Mac’s courage to murder Duncan is failing states ‘we’re not bad people Mac. We’re just underachievers who have to make up for lost time’.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2002
Duration: 102 mins

Director

Billy Morrissette

Producer

Peter Stern; Richard Shepard

Cinematographer

Wally Pfister

Music

Anton Sanko

Art Direction

Shelley Nieder

Cast

James LeGros	Joe ‘Mac’ McBeth (Macbeth)
Maura Tierney	Pat McBeth (Lady Macbeth)
Christopher Walken	Lieutenant McDuff (Macduff)
Tom Guiry	Malcolm Duncan (Malcolm)
Kevin Corrigan	Anthony ‘Banko’ Banconi (Banquo)
James Rebhorn	Norm Duncan (King Duncan)

Notes: Available from amazon.com (Region 1).
Reviews: Roger Ebert, reviewing the film in Chicago Sun-Times (February 15 2002) observed ‘if you know Macbeth, it’s funny. Anyone who doesn’t is going to think these people are acting mighty peculiar’.

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