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{{quote|''"We're not bad people, Mac... just underachievers who have to make up for lost time."''|'''Pat'''}}
''Scotland, PA'' is a 2001 film written and directed by Billy Morrisette, starring James LeGros, Maura Tierney, and [[Christopher Walken]].
Joe "Mac" McBeth and his wife Pat are too old to be flipping burgers at Duncan's Cafe. Both of them receive a brief vision of what life would be like with Joe as the head of the restaurant; naturally, Pat decides the best way to accomplish this is to kill Duncan and make it look like a robbery. So that's what they do.
Under new management and a new name, the restaurant does great business. But forces, internal and external, threaten to tear everything apart. Banko, Mac's best friend, and Lt. McDuff, the detective investigating Duncan's murder, both have their suspicions about the local fast-food king and queen, while the happy couple themselves are driven mad by their guilt and paranoia.
That's right, you've seen this story before. It's [[The Scottish Play]], [[Setting Update|only this time it's in rural Pennsylvania]] in [[The Seventies|the 70's]], and [[Black Comedy|it's all played for laughs]].
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* [[Junkie Prophet]]: A trio of [[Erudite Stoner]] bohemians replaces the witches.
* [[Lady Macbeth]]: Pat plays a particularly strong one.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
{{quote|'''Witch #1:''' Maybe McBeth should kill McDuff's whole family?
'''Witch #2:''' Yeah that would work, like 1,000 years ago! }}
* [["London, England" Syndrome]]
* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: McDuff
* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]: Fry grease splashes onto Pat's hand during Duncan's murder, and for the rest of the movie she keeps applying ointments to remove what she perceives to be a disfiguring burn.
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