Buffalo 66

Buffalo 66

Vincent Gallo is the lead actor and director in this film.

Plot:

Man is released from prison and the first thing he does is kidnapping a girl and take her on an adventure.

Review:

The short plot sentence is quite enough as far as the story goes. Billy is a quirky and introverted person and comes from a very dysfunctional family and thats probably why he's had a troubled life. Layla (Christina Ricci) and Billy meets in town after Billys been released and he makes up a lie about him having a wife and thats part of the reason he's been away for five years. The other is that he was away living a successful life elsewhere and he's had his friend Goon write his parents the made up letters. He kidnaps Layla, with some mild resistance, and takes her home to meet the parents. Layla is an emotionally confused young woman who gets a touch of the stockholm syndrome.

Apparentely the typical Buffalo Individual that Gallo is portraying is spot on. He comes from there and should obviously then come somewhat close. This is a low budget film where he even used his old house as the house in the film.

This is quite a one man show from Gallo. Ricci does a good job indeed but it's really from start to finish about this man and the decisions he make. If you like obscure and grimy films that make an impression I recommend Buffalo 66.

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