Where the Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam
by Art Linson

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Actor: Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, Peter Boyle, R.G. Armstrong, Rene Auberjonois
Director: Art Linson
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Producer: Art Linson
Editor: Christopher Greenbury
Producer: Mack Bing
Writer: Hunter S. Thompson
Writer: John Kaye
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Reviews of Where the Buffalo Roam

DVD Review: Hunter S. Thompson
Summary: 5 Stars

Here's a writer of a different breed, someone who speaks mind even if it is off topic, he did make it come around again to make both ends meet. The story is great, and Bill Murray does an excellent job portraying Hunter.
Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was another great portrayal of Hunter and both do justice.
" The only difference between the Sane and the Insane, is IN and yet within this world, the Sane have the power to have the Insane locked up." Hunter S. Thompson

DVD Review: Bill Murray or Johnny Depp
Summary: 5 Stars

Both actors portray Hunter S. Thompson in different films. Bill Murray shows a much more lively side of Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam, while Depp shows the drug craved maniac that Thompson was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

DVD Review: Truly stinks
Summary: 1 Stars

Having found nothing the slightest bit amusing in the first half hour, I had to hit eject on this one. Dated '70s druggy humor hasn't worn well, I guess. At least for me. This has the mark of a dud written all over it.

DVD Review: Dr. Gonzo at his Finest
Summary: 5 Stars

If you are a fan of Hunter S. then this movie is a must. As in the more recent Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas featuring a steller performance by Depp and Del Toro, the characters portrayed in this film are brilliant. Anything with Bill Murray is great, but when you add Peter Boyle...as the Italians say..."FORGET ABOUT IT".

DVD Review: Cult Comedy
Summary: 3 Stars

Bill Murray as Dr. Hunter S. Thompson? Amazingly he's not badly cast at all, and it's his performance that makes this movie work as often as it does. Anyone who's ever seen interview footage of HST will testify that Bill Murray does an excellent portrayal of him in his prime. While supposedly based on HST's writings, much of this movie is a lot closer to the stoner comedy of Cheech and Chong and it lacks the paranoid psychotic intensity that made HST one of the funniest satirists around. It does have some hilarious lines scattered here and there, along with some of the most absurd situations in any film comedy. At times, it almost felt like a Marx Brothers update to me. It also feels - largely due to Peter Boyle's extended supporting performance - as if a better, sharper movie lurked just under the surface waiting for a different director to bring it out.

Naturally, there's plenty of flaws in this film besides the disjointed screenplay. While set in the late 1960s/early 1970s, the film comes across as a relic of the early 1980s. Not only in pacing - although if you've watched B-movie comedies from the era you'll know what I mean. The DVD version of the film has much of the original soundtrack wiped in favor of generic rock which half-heartedly tries to sound 60s but really sounds 80s. Also, Peter Boyle and Bill Murray have surprisingly little chemistry considering their characters are fellow anarchists and supposed friends.

I suspect there are some great outtakes (which this DVD doesn't have). Nor does it have any commentary tracks. Still, this is a budget DVD, so you have to ask yourself some tough questions. If you, like I, am a Bill Murray and HST fan you'll probably want to see this movie at least once. Do what I did and opt for a used copy.

Description of Where the Buffalo Roam

Gonzo journalist hunter s. Thompson covers nixon and the 1972 super bowl with his manic lawyer lazlo. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/01/2006 Starring: Bill Murray Bruno Kirby Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R Director: Art Linson

Bill Murray is in his early-career, shambling glory as Hunter S. Thompson, the gonzo journalist with a fondness for Wild Turkey and firearms. While Murray does not do as exact an impersonation of Thompson as Johnny Depp (in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), he does capture Thompson's dazed, anarchic nature. Unfortunately, the movie around him is just anarchic: a series of episodes (true or invented) from Dr. Thompson's career, circa 1968-72. The haphazard structure is probably meant to suggest the spirit of the counterculture or something, but it's just flabby storytelling. Thanks to Murray's blissful delivery, there are scenes that have a stoned giddiness to them: Thompson and his attorney (Peter Boyle) terrifying an unsuspecting hitchhiker, or Thompson alone in a men's room with Richard Nixon. Neil Young contributes some music, and Murray warbles "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" while drunkenly piloting a plane. --Robert Horton

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