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NUMBERS
Box Office: $228,361
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CONSENSUS
Though it's not as good as it could have been, Scotland PA shows cleverness at utilizing its premise.
CAST & CREW
James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken
Directed by Billy Morrissette
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SYNOPSIS
Yahtzee, chicken nuggets, weed-smoking clairvoyant hippies, Shakespeare refrains, and jamming rock songs by Bad Company are some of the key elements of director Billy Morrissette's ode to MACBETH and early 1970s small town America. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for language, some nudity, drug content and brief violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 44 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 8, 2002
Video: Oct 22, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Lot 47 Films
GENRE
Comedies, Murder, 1970s
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Scotland, PA Site
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TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Transforms one of [Shakespeare's] deepest tragedies into a smart new comedy."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
 "Morrissette's script and direction show a fair amount of intelligence and wit -- but it doesn't signify a whole lot either."
-- Rod Armstrong, REEL.COM
"Scotland, Pa. is a strangely drab romp. Some studio pizazz might have helped."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"... while certainly clever in spots, this too-long, spoofy update of Shakespeare's Macbeth doesn't sustain a high enough level of invention."
-- Misha Berson, SEATTLE TIMES
"It’s not exactly a gourmet meal but the fare is fair, even coming from the drive-thru."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
"Morrissette has performed a difficult task indeed - he’s taken one of the world’s most fascinating stories and made it dull, lifeless, and irritating."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"On the surface a silly comedy, Scotland, PA would be forgettable if it weren't such a clever adaptation of the bard's tragic play."
-- Annlee Ellingson, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"Scotland, PA is entirely too straight-faced to transcend its clever concept."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Underachieves only in not taking the Shakespeare parallels quite far enough."
-- James Hebert, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"The Bard as black comedy -- Willie would have loved it."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"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."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"A wickedly funny and dark take on Macbeth."
-- Sean Means, SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"McBeth's personal karmageddon builds with comedy and tragedy in equal measure, without being as long as the original."
-- Karina Montgomery, CINERINA
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"deliriously funny, fast and loose, accessible to the uninitiated, and full of surprises"
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"The audacity to view one of Shakespeare's better known tragedies as a dark comedy is, by itself, deserving of discussion."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"It's a setup so easy it borders on facile, but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast."
-- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. WEEKLY
"The AM-radio soundtrack and game cast -- Tierney and the inimitable Walken especially -- keep this unusual comedy from choking on its own conceit."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"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."
-- Edward Havens, FILMJERK.COM
"This spawn of William Shakespeare and Ray Kroc has more fun with [the] thin premise than you might expect, mostly because of Maura Tierney."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"At its worst, the movie is pretty diverting; the pity is that it rarely achieves its best."
-- Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE MAGAZINE
"... a gleefully grungy, hilariously wicked black comedy ..."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"A quirky noir film crammed full of wonderful characters made memorable by excellent acting."
-- Max Messier, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Earns its laughs from stock redneck 'types' and from the many, many moments when we recognize even without the Elizabethan prose, the play behind the thing."
-- Roger Moore, ORLANDO SENTINEL
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ROTTEN 43%
Avg. Rating: 5.7/10 |
"Film can't quite maintain its initial momentum, but remains sporadically funny throughout."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Peppered with witty dialogue and inventive moments."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Scotland, PA. blurs the line between black comedy and black hole."
-- Jay Carr, BOSTON GLOBE
"The jokes sometimes fall flat, but the weirdness and darkening of tone make for quirky fun."
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"I enjoyed the movie in a superficial way, while never sure what its purpose was."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Sometimes smart but more often sophomoric."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"... a joke at once flaky and resonant, lightweight and bizarrely original."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"None of this is very original, and it isn't particularly funny."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Does little to elaborate the conceit of setting this blood-soaked tragedy of murderous ambition in the era of Richard Nixon."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"Too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good, it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
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"A disappointment for those who love alternate versions of the Bard, particularly ones that involve deep fryers and hamburgers."
-- Kim Morgan, OREGONIAN
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Scotland, PA" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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