American Buffalo
, which won both the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play and the Obie Award, is considered a classic of the American theater.
Newsweek
acclaimed Mamet as the “hot young American playwright . . . someone to watch.”
The New York Times
exclaimed in admiration: “The man can write!” Other critics called the play “a sizzler,” ‘super,” and ‘dynamite.”
Now from Gregory Mosher, the producer of the original stage production, comes a stunning screen adaptation, directed by Michael Corrente and starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and Sean Nelson.
A classic tragedy,
is the story of three men struggling in the pursuit of their distorted vision of the American Dream. By turns touching and cynical, poignant and violent,
is a piercing story of how people can be corrupted into betraying their ideals and those they love.