American Buffalo [Region 2] | ![American Buffalo [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E31ZBSNNL._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Michael Corrente
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson
Category: DVD
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Rating:  13 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: French (Unknown), English (Unknown), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.75:1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
EAN: 3361661900489
ASIN: B0000506AD
Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 1996
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David Mamet's hit play from the 1970s has made it to the screen with its grim humor intact. The story of a robbery that never actually happens, the three-character drama focuses on a set of small-timers looking for a big score: Donny (Dennis Franz), who runs a junk shop; his jittery young assistant, Bobby (Sean Nelson); and Teach (Dustin Hoffman), a card-playing pal of Donny's with a nose for a shifty deal. Donny has accidentally sold a rare buffalo-head nickel to a customer not realizing what it's worth, and so he and Bobby are planning to steal it back--and Teach wants a piece of the job. Mamet's trademark testosterone-fueled jabber is less about crime than about the ways men talk to--and at--each other. Hoffman is grungily appealing as a guy who always goes a step too far, while Franz brings a quiet power to his role as a man who always knows more than he says. --Marshall Fine
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 Don't Waste Your Time February 9, 2010
W. W. Sperger (Ithaca, N.Y. USA)
Yes, David Mamet is a fine playwright with an ear for crisp dialogue - Glengarry Glen Ross is a testament to that fact.
American Buffalo is something else.
Ninety minutes set almost completely in a junk shop with Franz and Hoffman bantering back and forth, does not make for interesting drama.
The movie goes nowhere.
I kept waiting for a payoff of some kind that never came.
Disappointing at best - worthless at worst.
 American Buffalo July 3, 2008
Al Mcnair (Tucson, AZ USA)
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.
 American Buffalo DVD Review June 24, 2008
Manny M. Agah
A well-acted film with fine dialog. The DVD is in widescreen and enhanced for 16:9 TVs.
Watched it filming!!!! February 3, 2006
Ms. Blake Morgan (Fairbanks,Ak., Alaska United States)
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!
Hoffman Shines In This Small-Scale Mamet Adaptation January 18, 2006
J. Merritt (Washington-Baltimore Corridor)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
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