Buffalo '66 Poster

Buffalo '66 (1998)

R 01/20/1998 Drama, Romance, Comedy 1h 50m
71%
User
Score
7.4/10
77%
69/100

Billy Brown just got out of jail. Now he’s going to serve some real time. He’s going home.

Overview

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Vincent Gallo

Director

Alison Bagnall

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Vincent Gallo

Vincent Gallo

Billy Brown

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci

Layla

Ben Gazzara

Ben Gazzara

Jimmy Brown

Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston

Jan Brown

Rosanna Arquette

Rosanna Arquette

Wendy Balsam

Jan-Michael Vincent

Jan-Michael Vincent

Sonny

Kevin Corrigan

Kevin Corrigan

Rocky the Goon

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke

The Bookie

Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak

TV Sportscaster

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Media

'Pointed Knife' Scene

'Pointed Knife' Scene

'A Heart Cookie' Scene

'A Heart Cookie' Scene

'Hot Chocolate' Scene

'Hot Chocolate' Scene

'Photo Booth' Scene

'Photo Booth' Scene

'Layla Tap Dances' Scene

'Layla Tap Dances' Scene

'Bowling Ball' Scene

'Bowling Ball' Scene

'How We Met' Scene

'How We Met' Scene

'Hands On The Dash' Scene

'Hands On The Dash' Scene

'Kidnapping Billy's Fake Wife' Scene

'Kidnapping Billy's Fake Wife' Scene

'Watch Your Mouth' Scene

'Watch Your Mouth' Scene

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written on September 29, 2018

Mostly tedious, but Ricci is adorable, “Heart of the Sunrise” is featured and the message is potent

An angry sad sack (Vincent Gallo) is released after five years in prison near Buffalo and proceeds to kidnap a cute girl at a ballet studio (Christina Ricci). She surprisingly agrees to go along with the charade of being his wife to fool his nutty parents. His sole ambition seems to be to kill a field goal kicker for the Bills who let him down five years earlier. Anjelica Huston, Mickey Rourke, Jan-Michael Vincent and Rosanna Arquette have brief roles.

“Buffalo ’66” (1998) is an offbeat indie written & directed by its star, Gallo. I only know him from Coppola’s “Tetro” (2009) where he proved to have an almost Brando-like charisma (I said “almost”). Ricci is one of t...

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written on July 22, 2023

"Billy" (Vincent Gallo) gets let out of prison and promises to bring his new wife to meet his mother. An hasty promise for two reasons. First - well, he hasn't actually got a wife and second - he is desperate to pee. Intent on sorting out the latter problem, he encounters "Layla" (Christina Ricci) whom he promptly thinks can solve his other problem, so he frog marches her to her car and hopes that she - by now at gunpoint - will agree to help him out. Risky strategy, that! Can it work out for him? Well what now follows is an entertainingly quirky road movie that sees the two gradually bond whilst we learn about both of their rather complicated pasts. It's not just his mother (Angelica Huston) that he wants to visit; he also has a score to settle with a bookie (Mickey Rourke) but maybe, jus...

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