American Buffalo is a 1996 drama film directed by Michael Corrente and starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz and Sean Nelson, the only members of the cast.

Director Michael Corrente (Federal Hill) works at getting the story off the stage (it's set in a junk shop) by occasionally moving to an empty, decrepit city street.

"[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2+1⁄2 stars of four, saying, "It is a cliché, but true, that some plays have their real life on the stage.

Franz, of television's NYPD Blue, is terrific, but Hoffman, performing in 'street' mode, complete with long greasy hair, never allows you to forget that he's reciting lines.

Eventually the hypnotic repetitiveness of the language and the total lack of action did their work, and the dreaded Sandman, who hovers constantly at the shoulder of all film reviewers, paid me one of his visits.

In addition to Newman on piano, musicians included Steve Kujala (reeds), George Doering, Bill Bernstein, Rick Cox, (guitars), Harvey Mason (drums), and Mike Fisher (percussion).