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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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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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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

Read review  Cinema Crazed  Felix Vasquez Jr.

Read review  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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