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'Buffaloed': Debt Collecting For Fun And Profit

Peg (Zoey Deutch) goes into the debt-collection business in a comedy that focuses so narrowly on its self-absorbed main character that the world around her fades to obscurity.
Kathy (Judy Greer) looks concerned, a thing Judy Greer does a lot in movies, in <em>Buffaloed</em>.

In 2017, Zoey Deutch managed to carry Flower, a brisk but slight comedy about an exuberant young hustler with Daddy issues. She does it again in Buffaloed, in which she plays pretty much the same character, but confronts a different social evil. Flower's heroine battled pederasts; Buffaloed's rattles collection agencies.

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