Buffalo '66

1998
US
1h 50min
15

Directed by: Vincent Gallo
Cast: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara
UK release: 2 October 1998

Life for Billy Brown is so awful that he reconstructs a life for himself from lies upon his release from a five-year spell in prison. Kidnapping a young girl named Layla, Brown concocts a story for his parents, who, it turns out, bear very little love for their son. Gallo has a black sense of humour, finding absurdity in lower-class American life, but it becomes clear that Buffalo 66 is a deeply life-affirming film.