Synopsis
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who is much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
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Cast
- James Le GrosJoe 'Mac' McBeth
- Maura TierneyPat McBeth
- Christopher WalkenLieutenant McDuff
- Kevin CorriganAnthony 'Banko' Banconi
- James RebhornNorm Duncan
- Tom GuiryMalcolm Duncan
- Amy SmartStacy (Hippie #1)
- Timothy "Speed" LevitchHector (Hippie #2)
- Andy DickJesse (Hippie #3)
Recommendations
- 70
L.A. Weekly
It's a setup so easy it borders on facile, but keeping the film from cheap-shot mediocrity is its crack cast. - 70
New Times (L.A.)
Hovers curiously short of its full potential for mirth and mayhem. Still, the movie is more fair than foul, and it succeeds well enough as a freakish experiment and mockery of all concerned. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
I have the curious suspicion that it will be enjoyed most by someone who knows absolutely nothing about Shakespeare, and can see it simply as the story of some very strange people who seem to be reading from the same secret script. - 63
Miami Herald
Shakespeare purists may scoff and wonder what the point is, but Morrissette would probably shrug and say ``Why not?'' - 40
Village Voice
The irrepressible Walken smiles benignly down on his colleagues, secure in the knowledge that his antics have capsized sturdier vessels than this. Playing a supposed health-food nut, he enters the movie chewing and doesn't stop until he's devoured every scene down to the props. - 40
The New York Times
Too leisurely paced and visually drab for its own good, it succeeds in being only sporadically amusing. - 38
Boston Globe
Blurs the line between black comedy and black hole. - 30
The A.V. Club
Shakespeare hasn't had it this rough since Lemmy from Motörhead performed the opening soliloquy in "Tromeo And Juliet."
