Scotland, PA

Scotland, PA is a 2001 film directed and written by William Morrissette. It is a modernized version of William Shakespeares Macbeth. The film stars James LeGros, Maura Tierney, and Christopher Walken. Shakespeares tragedy, originally set in Dunsinane Castle in 11th century Scotland, is reworked into a dark comedy set in 1975, centered on Duncans Cafe, a fastfood restaurant in the small town of Scotland, Pennsylvania. The choice of Pennsylvania is arbitrary, though it coincides with two real towns, one southwest of Harrisburg on the outskirts of Chambersburg called Scotland and one just south of Erie, called Edinboro after Scotlands Edinburgh. The film was shot in Nova Scotia.

In 1975, Duncans, a fastfood restaurant owned by Malcolm in the tiny hamlet of Scotland, Pennsylvania, hosts a variety of workers. Joe Mac McBeth is passed over for a promotion to manager by Douglas McKenna, who has been embezzling the restaurants money. Three stoned hippies, one a fortune teller, inform Mac that they see a bank drivethru style restaurant in his future as management. Mac and Pat McBeth then play informants on McKenna, and Duncan recognizes the value of Macs efforts on behalf of the restaurant. Duncan shares with the McBeths his plans to turn his failing burger joint into a drivethrough, and Mac realizes how profitable the drivethrough could be. Duncan is promoted to assistant manager but is hit in the head with a refrigerator door. Pat then decides to murder Duncan in a staged robbery. Mac and Pat attack Duncan to acquire the combination to the restaurants safe, and Mac assaults Duncan, but is distracted by a vision of the three hippies, allowing Duncan to fall head first into a deep fryer that splatters and burns Pats hand. Investigator McDuff arrests a local homeless man, to whom Pat has given Duncans jewelry, and the restaurant is willed to Mac. The McBeths immediately realize Macs ideas, and the restaurants business takes off.Investigator McDuff returns to Scotland, where the homeless man is cleared, and the McBeths focus their attention on Malcolm. Banko, Macs friend, questions why Mac had never mentioned the drivein concept. Mac grows withdrawn and paranoid and on a hunting trip contemplates killing off Banko, but a vision of the three hippies dressed as deer distracts him. Pat becomes obsessed with her burn injury and accuses people of staring at her repulsivelooking hand, though no scar is visible. Mac then kills Banko with the homeless mans gun, and the body is discovered while new celebrity Mac gives a press conference. Mac calls on an hallucination of Banko to ask a question at the press conference and loses his sanity as the town watche

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