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American Buffalo (1996)
Released By: Hallmark Entertainment   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Hallmark Entertainment
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Corrente
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Dennis Franz, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Nelson
Published ID: 4436
UPC: 027616857651,
Plot: David Mamet's play about three losers planning a robbery is brought to the screen in an admirably simple, straightforward manner. Don (Dennis Franz) is the owner of an antique store (read: junk shop) who discovers that the buffalo head nickel he recently sold to a coin collector was a lot more valuable than he imagined. Don hatches a scheme in which he and Bobby (Sean Nelson), a teenage kid who works at the shop, will steal the nickel back and sell it for a much higher price. Teach (Dustin Hoffman), Don's down-on-his-luck buddy, insists on coming in on the job, but Don isn't sure he wants Teach's help -- or that the robbery is a good idea at all. While director Michael Corrente occasionally moves the action out of the shop (unlike the original play), American Buffalo maintains nearly all the dialogue of the original play and its three-man cast. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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American Buffalo
Added 7/3/2008

Although Dennis Franz and Dustin Hoffman are, in my opinion, great actors, the plot to this movie was a real piece of garbage, and I don't think Franz and Hoffman should ever have agreed to participating in it.
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American Buffalo DVD Review
Added 6/24/2008

A well-acted film with fine dialog. The DVD is in widescreen and enhanced for 16:9 TVs.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Watched it filming!!!!
Added 2/3/2006

I worked at thr YMCA in Pawtucket, R.I.,where this was filmed, and was fortunate to see alot of the shooting! One scene was filmed directly outside the YMCA's doors! Met Dennis Franz....what a nice guy! Met the director also....he too was quite congenial.Saw Hoffman,but could not get too close to him...Not like the bear hug, and joking around I enjoyed with Dennis Franz! I liked the movie for perhaps sentimental reasons...and also the young male actor in it was quite good, as well as of course Hoffman, and Franz...but could have done without some elements that were "overdone" i.e. swearing. It is a pretty decent film on the whole.The three actors seemed to work very well together, and I noticed,enjoyed goofing around with each other off-set!
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Hoffman Shines In This Small-Scale Mamet Adaptation
Added 1/19/2006

This came and went with nary a peep back in '96, but it deserved more attention than it got. Adaptations of David Mamet's work are not for everyone, I realize, but at least in this case the playwright did the adapting himself. Hoffman is a treat as Teach, a small-time hood who is all talk and very little action. The entire film is essentially a three-person, one-set ensemble piece, but Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and the young Sean Nelson pull it off. Franz wisely chose to underplay his role as Donny, who listens semi-patiently to all of Teach's endless bluster, and Michael Corrente's direction is mostly successful in keeping the film from feeling too stagey.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
AVOID
Added 3/28/2005

really boring extremly bad just talking i putone star because i have no choice because it would be zero
0 out of 10 people found this helpful.
American Buffalo
Added 7/3/2008

Although Dennis Franz and Dustin Hoffman are, in my opinion, great actors, the plot to this movie was a real piece of garbage, and I don't think Franz and Hoffman should ever have agreed to participating in it.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
American Buffalo DVD Review
Added 6/24/2008

A well-acted film with fine dialog. The DVD is in widescreen and enhanced for 16:9 TVs.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Watched it filming!!!!
Added 2/3/2006

I worked at thr YMCA in Pawtucket, R.I.,where this was filmed, and was fortunate to see alot of the shooting! One scene was filmed directly outside the YMCA's doors! Met Dennis Franz....what a nice guy! Met the director also....he too was quite congenial.Saw Hoffman,but could not get too close to him...Not like the bear hug, and joking around I enjoyed with Dennis Franz! I liked the movie for perhaps sentimental reasons...and also the young male actor in it was quite good, as well as of course Hoffman, and Franz...but could have done without some elements that were "overdone" i.e. swearing. It is a pretty decent film on the whole.The three actors seemed to work very well together, and I noticed,enjoyed goofing around with each other off-set!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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