American Buffalo

February 27th - March 15, 2024

In a Chicago junk shop, three men plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the oafish junk shop owner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.

CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN

American Buffalo Finals (37 of 39)

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