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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 15357
Released: June 17, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After five years in prison for a crime he didnt commit billy brown a down-on-his-luck-romantic comes home to seek revenge on a local field goal kicker who cost him his freedom and buffalo its super bowl dreams. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Vincent Gallo Ben Gazzara Run time: 110 minutes Rating: R
Description of Buffalo '66:
Writer-director-composer Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci star in this quirky and deliberately grimy little movie. Gallo plays Billy Brown, recently released from prison and unable to find so much as a decent bathroom in his cold hometown. Billy's parents are unaware that he's been locked up; in a pathetic attempt to impress them with how successful he's become, he hits on the novel plan of kidnapping young dance student Layla (Ricci) and forcing her to play the role of his wife. Billy's distant--to say the least--parents are played to the hilt by Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara, Huston in particular bringing a demented glee to her role as Billy's football-obsessed mother. As the movie unfolds, we learn more about Billy's tormented childhood and unfortunate tendency to bet on the Bills in the Super Bowl. Gallo boldly throws himself into the task of playing a complete sleazebag, and Ricci does lovely standout work as the one ray of hope in the grinding darkness of Billy's life. This odd little love story is just the thing to make you feel better about your own relationship--especially if you're not in one. --Ali Davis
Buffalo '66 Reviews:
Forsaking depth for beauty, pretension, and vanity. 
2009-08-03 - Buffalo '66 is a visually beautiful movie. We're treated to wondeful shot, after shot, after shot...after shot...after shot. Unfortunately Buffalo '66 capitalizes on indie film stereotypes by taking something tragic, throwing "glitter" on it, and leaning on pretension. I honestly feel this film falls due to vanity, where the editing is overdone to the point of empty flattery, and scenes have emphasis put on everything -- even when it digresses.
The characters themselves are absolutely pathetic, self-indulgent, and whiney.
We're supposed to accept that the character of Bobby (Vallo) is so ridiculous because he had (what the movie implies as) a "bad childhood." As someone who has dealt with real childhood tragedies in myself and others, I was completely insulted. Just because Bobby got the sore end of his parents' empty marriage in the suburbs is no excuse for his behavior. I didn't find his attempts to impress his parents "sad" or "touching," but rather pathetic. I'd shudder to think how his character would be if his childhood had actually been horrible. Don't even get me started on Ricci's character. We're offered no insight into her other than nobody wants anything to do with her. It's easy to see why considering how desperate and worthless she is.
And there lies the connection between these two failures. Perhaps I lack human compassion, but it's the emotional instability and neediness of weak people like the ones depicted in this movie that make intimacy seem deplorable.
Buffalo '66 is beautiful, but exceptionally ostentatious. It tries "desperately" (like it's characters) to be an independent art film, that it's focus on character development is disjointed and frail. I really wish there were more positive things I could say about this movie, but beyond it's great -- though narcissistic -- directing, there is nothing.
Memorable Movie 
2009-05-29 - Ever since I saw this movie the first time on the Sundance Channel on cable TV, it has been in my mind. The strong willed yet mentally troubled protagonist Billy Brown seeks revenge against a man that he has never met, yet discovers unexpected forks in the road that leads him to discover revenge comes at a high cost, and may not allways be the correct path to follow. His life long friend who prefers to be called Rocky attempts to talk Billy down, but it will take more than that to persuade him from his destiny. There is also a very tasteful and touching love story inter-twined into the drama, adding color and hope to a movie based around a sinester plot.
The acting in the movie is raw and authentic, I wish more movies had this caliber of realism and witty dialog. I am glad to own this on DVD now so when I feel frustrated with the world I can hang out with my "Best friend in the whole wide world" Billy Brown.
The World of Billy Brown
2009-04-29 - I admit to originally renting this movie because of Christina Ricci during her fuller-figured days. Aside from Ricci, I did not expect much else from this movie, but what I did get during the process was a lot more than I ever thought. I will delve a bit deeper but first I want to cover a few of the basics.
This is pretty much a bare-bones DVD with just the movie itself and little else in the way of special-features. The few extra things you do get include: English and Spanish subtitles as well as a handful of trailers semi-hidden as easter-eggs. The trailers you get are Buffalo 66, The Big Kahuna(Danny Devito), and Confidence(Dustin Hoffman). The movie runs 109 minutes.
For starters, obviously, this movie is not for everyone. Those who dislike it, dislike it tremendously. They'll find it senseless and will never ever like it. But so what..this movie was obviously not intended for everyone; and so for those that this movie did touch, you're guaranteed a unique and transformational experience.
From the first time I've seen Buffalo 66 on a VHS copy in 2002 till now, I must have watched this movie at least a dozen times, it never gets old. And each time I watch it, I get something new from it. From the moment that Billy leaves prison and lays on that snowy bench by himself, I begin to feel his angst. His world is dark and dreary with more than a hint of misery.
But, right underneath these somber circumstances, I could sense a need to push beyond it and a need to transform all of it. Billy's obsessed goal is to kill the Buffalo Bills kicker for doing him wrong. Along the way, Billy kidnaps Layla(Ricci). Then he uses her as a prop in order to decieve his aloof parents whom he has not seen in years, since before he went to prison.
For me, this movie fits with the old adage of something being indescribable. You just gotta experience it. The process and the journey is what this movie is all about. There is plenty of black humor and some subtle sweet moments along the way, it's all part of the adventure. All the other characters add their little spice to Billy Brown's world. So if you are adventurous enough, come take a journey to the world of Buffalo 66.
Do yourself a favor, see any movie you can but this. 
2009-02-23 - The first twenty minutes of this film is about a guy trying to find somewhere to take a piss, seriously, enjoy. The next seventy or so minutes is about Vincent Gallo being an aggressive, nuerotic pootard. If you love Vincent Gallo, because he is so individual and alternative, then there is a good chance this film will echo some idiotic film idea of your own you once had while chinking latte glasses with your other loser friends.
If like me you think Vincent Gallo is a self-indulgent, no talent rim job then you will find yourself at the end of this turgid, vacuous dog turd of a movie wishing you had drained the fluid from you eyes with a ball point pen instead of wasting real actual proper money that you could've used for something, anything else. The only upside is that even now he looks very unhealthy and may soon die.
great!
2009-01-10 - It was difficult to find this dvd at stores
and i needed it as a christmas gift for my
best friend because she loves this movie
and didnt have it. The dvd was brand new
and i payed less than [...] bucks for it!
