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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Jan 19, 2001
Running Time: 97 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
A modern take on Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in a 1970s Pennsylvania diner. Mac and Pat McBeth are stuck in their dead-end jobs at Duncan's Restaurant. Restless and a bit delusional, they hear about the boss's idea for revolutionizing the fast-food industry and hatch a plan that will solve all their woes. As events unfold, it seems the happy couple has attained the American Dream of fame, fortune, and french fries. However, as bodies start dropping, Mac begins to break down further, and Pat becomes more than a little obsessed with a nasty burn "spot" on her hand. These incidents arouse the suspicions of co-worker, Anthony "Banko" Banconi and police lieutenant Ernie McDuff.
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Hector/Hippie
Joe 'Mac' McBeth
Pat McBeth
Lieutenant Ernie McDuff
Anthony 'Banko' Banconi
Norm Duncan
Malcolm Duncan
Stacy--Hippie
Jesse--Hippie
Donald
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reviews
January 31, 2002
Scotland, PA, a contemporary comic take on Shakespeare's Macbeth, is a film the studio actually did show to critics. Go figure. Debuting writer-director Billy Morrissette sets his tale in rural Pennsylvania, circa 1972. James LeGros stars as Joe "Mac" McBeth, a wage slave to Duncan (James Rebhorn), the owner of a fast-food dump who doesn't appreciate Mac. With the help of his ambitious wife, Pat (Maura Tierney), Mac deep-fries his boss and soon dazzles his town with new concepts such as combo…
Hardly your typical cinematic update of Shakespeare, this amusing and always visually witty send-up of Macbeth goofily unfolds in a small 1970s Pennsylvania town, where an ambitious married couple take murderous action to escape their menial jobs at a tacky hamburger joint. Story In the early '70s, scheming husband-and-wife lowlifes Mac and Pat McBeth work menial jobs at Duncan's Restaurant, a popular greasy spoon in tiny Scotland, Penn. Their boss, Norm Duncan, shares with them his idea to… |
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