American Buffalo
Summary:
David Mamet's play about three losers planning a robbery is brought to the screen in an admirably simple, straightforward manner. Don (Dennis Franz) is the owner of an "antique store" (read: junk shop) who discovers that the buffalo head nickel he recently sold to a coin collector was a lot more valuable than he imagined. Don hatches a scheme in which he and Bobby (Sean Nelson),... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman - (Teach)
Dennis Franz - (Don)
Sean Nelson - (Bobby)
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Review:
For audiences unaccustomed to playwright David Mamet's claustrophobic, language-dense style, American Buffalo may be a hard film to watch. Primarily a three-character play with one main set -- a junk shop where two men and a teenaged assistant plot a robbery -- the film is more a character piece than a real story. As such, it is a marvelous s... Continue >>
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