2020 · comedy · drama
Buffaloed
Directed by Tanya Wexler1h 35m2020
Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.
Our read: Buffaloed (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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“You want a scrappy Zoey Deutch hustler comedy with bite and momentum.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike abrasive scam humor or debt-collection sleaze as comedy fuel.
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