Buffalo '66

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

1998 1h 50m EN

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★7.1TMDB · 1,099

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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.

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

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Cast

Vincent Gallo
Billy Brown
Christina Ricci
Layla
Ben Gazzara
Jimmy Brown
Anjelica Huston
Jan Brown
Mickey Rourke
The Bookie
Rosanna Arquette
Wendy Balsam
Jan-Michael Vincent
Sonny
Kevin Corrigan
Rocky the Goon

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Vincent Gallo
Writers: Vincent Gallo, Alison Bagnall, Vincent Gallo
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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28 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Vincent Gallo, shot by Lance Acord. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Vincent Gallo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Curtiss Clayton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci and Ben Gazzara carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0118789 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Vincent Gallo directs. Lance Acord behind the camera. Vincent Gallo scores. Curtiss Clayton cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
228 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Directed by Vincent Gallo, shot by Lance Acord. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Vincent Gallo. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Curtiss Clayton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Vincent Gallo and Christina Ricci and Ben Gazzara carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Billy Brown just got out of jail. Now he’s going to serve some real time. He’s going home.".
8IMDB entry: tt0118789 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 16 themes, including "prison", "gambling", "bowling", "winter".

The technical file

Cinematography: Lance Acord
Original score: Vincent Gallo
Editing: Curtiss Clayton
Production design: Gideon Ponte
Costume design: Alexis Scott
Makeup / hair: Lynn Campbell
Sound: Rick Ash
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,500,000
Box office: $2,375,097
Return: 158% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Buffalo '66 (1998)

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Wuchak2018-09-29
★ 6/10
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 the highlights here as she’s petite, voluptuous and adorable. Unfortunately, most of the episodes in the story could’ve been cut by one-third or even one-half. As it is, they become tedious, such as the loong segment at the parent’s house. But the final act wins the day with Yes’ “Heart of the Sunrise” placed strategically and a profound moral about the power of uncompromising love to change a piece of sheet. The film runs 1 hour, 50 minutes and was shot in Buffalo, New York, and surround areas (Gowanda, Lackawanna and Woodlawn). GRADE: C+/B-
CinemaSerf2023-07-22
★ 7/10
"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, just maybe, his new companion might adjust his priorities? This is a well paced, intimate movie and there is a good, almost magnetic, dynamic between Gallo and Ricci. The story is lively and engaging offering us an offbeat love story that is, though maybe a touch predictable, based more on two characterful performances rather than cheesy sentiment (of which there is none!) and gooey love scenes as they head for their own kind of redemption. Coffee and doughnuts anyone?