Angus MacLachlan is a playwright and screenwriter known for writing the screenplay for the 2005 film Junebug.

Career

MacLachlan graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1980 and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Tater Tomater is a short student film that was directed by Phil Morrison while he was a student at NYU. The short is based on MacLachlan's stage play Behold Zebulon. It was first screened in 1989 at the Rialto Theater in Raleigh, North Carolina and in 1992, both screened at Sundance and aired on PBS's American Playhouse. The short stars Beth Bostic and Mary Lucy Bivins as two servers working in a cafeteria; Bostic continually asks customers if they want "taters" or "tomaters" until she has a mental breakdown. Since its premiere the short has received praise and taken on cult film status. A now-defunct website, tatertomater.com, was launched and allowed fans to take polls, sign a guestbook, or purchase a copy of the short film. MacLachlan and Morrison, who grew up together in Winston-Salem, would later work together again on the film Junebug (2005). He adapted one of his plays into the film Stone, directed by John Curran and starring Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, and Edward Norton. It was released in 2010.

Filmography