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Movie Overview
Cast
James LeGros
Maura Tierney
Christopher Walken
Director
Billy Morrissette
Billy Morrissette
MPAA Rating
Not Rated - for language, some nudity, drug content and brief violence
Scotland, PA (2002)
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3/10
"As flaccid and undistinguished as star James LeGros’s period wig."
Modamag.com
Brian Orndorf
C
"It's as nourishing as a Big Mac with fries."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
"
Scotland, PA
is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
B+
"If you keep a list of films you want to see one way or another, you would be doing yourself a service by keeping this film high up on that list."
FilmJerk.com
Edward Havens
C+
"Its clever concept is almost all it has going for it -- and Morrissette seems a little too impressed with himself about the whole thing."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
C
"One of those movies that one can appreciate more for the idea behind it than for the way in which it's been executed."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3/4
"Peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
D-
"Less about Shakespeare than the spawn of fools who saw Quentin Tarantino's handful of raucous gangster films and branched out into their own pseudo-witty copycat interpretations."
Matinee Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp
5/5
"McBeth's personal karmageddon builds with comedy and tragedy in equal measure, without being as long as the original."
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
"The Bard as black comedy -- Willie would have loved it."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
B
"Macbeth. McDonald's. How far apart these poles of popular culture seemed until Billy Morrissette's sly McShakespeare crime comedy."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
3/4
"The audacity to view one of Shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is, by itself, deserving of discussion."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
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Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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