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Latest Movie Reviews: Buffaloed


Thu 20 Feb 2020 | 04:05 PM
Yara Sameh

Buffaloed is an American comedy-drama movie that was produced in 2019. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27 and later had a special screening at the Buffalo International Film Festival on October 13.

Magnolia Pictures acquired distribution rights to the movie shortly after its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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The plot follows a young girl who is obsessed with making enough cash to get out of her blue-collar existence and to get her into an Ivy League university, however, when the acceptance letter arrives; she quickly realizes that the impossibility of paying tuition, which makes her come up with a scheme that landed her to prison and to a  call with a debt collector, who later changes everything.

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Info & Cast

Rating: NR

Genre: Comedy

Directed By: Tanya Wexler

Written By: Brian Sacca

Produced by: John Finemore, Jeff Katz, Mason Novick, Bannor Michael MacGregor, Zoey Deutch, and Brian Sacca

Release date: Feb 14, 2020

Runtime: 95 minutes

Studio: Magnolia Pictures

It scored 77% from Rotten Tomatoes, 5.6/10 from IMDb, and 63% from Metacritic, while 88% of Google users liked it.

One of the most trusted measurements of quality for Movies & TV, Rotten Tomatoes’s critical consensus reads, “This late-capitalism comedy is undeniably uneven, but Zoey Deutch's effervescent performance gives Buffaloed wings.”.

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Cast

Zoey Deutch as Peggy Dahl

Kate Moyer as Young Peggy Dahl

Jermaine Fowler as Graham

Judy Greer as Kathy Dahl

Noah Reid as JJ

Lusia Strus as Frances

Lorrie Odom as Backer

Raymond Ablack as Prakash

Jai Courtney as Wizz

Brian Sacca as Sal