Scotland, PA

Is this a frying pan which I see before me? The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal burger cooker sensible to feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a frying pan of the hunger, a false creation, proceeding from the burger-deprived stomach?

Burgers? Macbeth? That's right. It's 2001's Scotland, PA; an indie film that takes McDonalds and makes it McBeths....get it? Like...Macbe...ok, moving on.

Mike Field and Mike Butler discuss the film and how it succeeds at adapting it's subject matter. Butler needs it to be a bit closer to Shakespeare's original tragedy, leaving the goofy jokes aside and letting the seriousness of taking place in a burger joint making it a funnier dark comedy. Field believes that the jokes work and that the adaptation should take it's language and story further from the source material. While both Mikes have differing opinions on the main bones of the story, they both agree that the acting by James Le Gross, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken, and Kevin Corrigan is top notch as well as the style and 1970's flair that director Billy Morrissette brings to this..."delicious" tragedy.

Damn, now I want a large #4 with a Coke.

So grab your popcorn and soda, please notice the exits to the left and right of you, and settle down for Forgotten Cinema.