Scotland, PA (2001)

Directed by

Billy Morrissette

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fast food worker in 1970s Pennsylvania is driven by ambition and his wife to murder the restaurant owner. They take over the business but a detective starts asking questions.

darkly comicquirkytenseirreverentretrooffbeatgrittywry

What happens

Scotland, PA is a 2001 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Billy Morrissette as a modernized retelling of Macbeth. The film stars James LeGros, Maura Tierney, and Christopher Walken. The Shakespearean tragedy, originally set in Dunsinane Castle in 11th-century Scotland, is reworked into a dark comedy set in 1975, centered on "Duncan's Cafe", a fast-food restaurant in the small town of Scotland, Pennsylvania. The film was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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