American Buffalo . Tucson Weekly . 10-03-96

American Buffalo

DIRECTED BY: Michael Corrente

REVIEWED: 10-03-96

If you like that sort of thing, you can't beat David Mamet for writing the strangest, most mannered and yet wonderful dialogue an ear has ever enjoyed. If you are the type to savor dialogue as you would music, then American Buffalo is a rare gem. If, on the other hand, you watch movies for like, content and story and all the pretty pictures, then American Buffalo is bound to disappoint. Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz star as a couple of losers, Teach and Don, who are basically obsessed with a buffalo head nickel. Their depopulated world looks like an Edward Hopper painting and their moral palate is just as bleak. The regular Mamet themes of manhood, friendship, betrayal and disappointment are all touched on, but never satisfactorily developed or resolved. Rent Glengarry Glen Ross if you want to see it done right.

--Stacey Richter

Other Films by Michael Corrente
Outside Providence

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