Product Description
Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 02/26/2008Amazon.com
Think of Scotland, PA. as truck-stop Shakespeare, Macbeth given a drive-through makeover as the deadliest of deadpan comedies. Writer-director Billy Morrissette got this wacky idea from an early job at Dairy Queen. He makes the most of that bad memory by casting his own wife (ER’s Maura Tierney) and indie stalwart James LeGros as Pat and Mac McBeth, a married pair of Pennsylvanian schemers, … More >>
#1 by James Moens on April 17, 2010 - 4:58 am
Just because it’s “quirky”, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Mount_Olympus on April 17, 2010 - 7:49 am
This story is suppose to parallel MacBeth. It is set in the 1970’s and has cameos by Hollywood stars. Remember when Indie films were hip and refreshing? Now, everyone in Hollywood is trying to either make or star in an Indie film. Sometimes the film succeeds to break away from Hollywood standards. Sometimes it is a deliberate attempt to be different and is transparent. I thought this film was the latter.
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Dan Engelke on April 17, 2010 - 9:06 am
For some reason when i was watching this movie i kept getting really bored with it and was really not to impressed with how the story was played out. i found some humor in the movie but overall once was more than enough
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by lady detective on April 17, 2010 - 11:36 am
I was really looking forward to this movie. I saw a little blip about it in a magazine, and it sounded hysterical. I was thrilled when I found it at the video store.
Much to my dissappointment, I found it to be annoying and boring. Sure, the whole McBeth fast food place is funny, and Christopher Walken is a great actor (but a bad script saves no one).
I kept thinking that the son of the owner was Pat in flashback, because they both had this horrible fake, puffy hair thing going on. Then, when i saw them in a scene together I thought,”oh, well that blows that theory.”
The three witches/hippies were irritating beyond belief… I can’t stand Andy Dick-I find his brand of obnoxious humor torture to watch.
Shakespeare was a brilliant writer- but underneath his fancy words lie the common themes of life, so I think in transferring his work to modern times you have to be careful-we see these themes all the time… it’s the “there are only seven stories” factor. The setting was fresh and new, but the story fell flat, and the tragic body pile-up that appears in every Shakespearian tragedy was handled in a blase manner. I didn’t care about the characters at all.
Skip it.
Another reviewer said it reminded them of the movie “A Simple Plan.” Watch that instead. Or, if you have time, read the book by Scott Smith. It’s fantastic.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on April 17, 2010 - 12:53 pm
I didn’t even realize at first that this was a riff off of Macbeth, but I got the joke and I enjoyed it. Very tongue-in-cheek, very absorbing, and yes, very depressing. All the acting is superb.
Rating: 4 / 5