Scotland, Pa.
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| Scotland, Pa. | |
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 Scotland, PA DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Billy Morrissette |
| Produced by | Richard Shepard, Jonathan Stern |
| Written by | Billy Morrissette |
| Starring | Maura Tierney, James LeGros, Christopher Walken |
| Music by | Anton Sanko |
| Distributed by | Lot 47 Films |
| Release date(s) | January 22, 2001 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Language | English |
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- For other uses, see Scotland (disambiguation).
Scotland, Pa. is a 2001 film, directed and written by Billy Morrissette based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth starring James LeGros, Maura Tierney and Christopher Walken. Shakespeare's tragedy, orignally set in Dunsinane Castle in 11th Century Scotland is reworked as a dark comedy set in 1975, based around "Duncan's Cafe", a fast-food restaurant in the small town of Scotland, Pennsylvania. The choice of Pennsylvania was arbitrary, though coincides with a real town, southwest of Harrisburg, on the outskirts of Chambersburg.
Macbeth is presented as "Joe 'Mac' McBeth" (James LeGros), Lady Macbeth as "Pat McBeth" (Maura Tierney), Duncan as "Norm Duncan" (James Rebhorn), Macduff as "Lieutenant McDuff" (Christopher Walken), and Banquo as "Anthony 'Banko' Banconi" (Kevin Corrigan). The three witches are presented as a trio of bohemians (Amy Smart, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, Andy Dick).
The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.
The movie's soundtrack is made up of Bad Company songs as, in Billy Morrissette's words, the catalogue "was surprisingly cheap to buy."
Morrissette also stated, on the DVD, that some of Maura Tierney's dialogue are actual idioms spoken by Maura. Morrissette states this is because of being married and hearing her saying words or phrases while writing the script.
[edit] Trivia
The man walking his dog in front of the diner at the start of the film is the director, Billy Morrissette (and that's really his dog). His (then) wife, Maura Tierney, stars in the film.
[edit] Tagline
"Greasy spoon. Bloody murder."
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