IF IT AIN'T SCOTTISH, IT'S CRAP!

Scotland, PA is a retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The twist? It is set in a mid-‘70s Pennsylvania burger shop. It starts off slow, but the second half of the movie picks up. The performances of Maura Tierney (ER, Liar, Liar) and Christopher Walken (Suicide Kings, Pulp Fiction) truly make this movie. First time writer/director Billy Morrissette wanted his parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth to reflect everyday life and everyday people. Morrissette didn't rely on Shakespeare's actual writing in the script (unlike Romeo & Juliet); he used a modern dialect. Scotland, PA is the story of Joe and Pat McBeth, who work at a local burger shop called Duncan's. Tired of never getting ahead in the burger business, the young, ambitious couple hatches a sinister plan that rapidly catapults them into a life of decadence-- only to be reigned back in by a dramatic fall from grace (due in part to Lt. Ernie McDuff, played by Walken, who is investigating the disappearance of Norm Duncan, the owner of Duncan's). In the meantime, McBeth's is the new burger shop, and with the new McChicken Strips, and the first ever drive-thru window, the McBeth Empire seems to be unstoppable. The movie is very cleverly written, and will surely be a cult classic.