Buffalo '66 Buffalo '66 is a 1998 crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Vincent Gallo, starring Gallo, Christina Ricci, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston. The plot revolves around Billy Brown (Gallo), a man who kidnaps a young tapdancer (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife to impress his parents (Gazzara and Huston) after he gets released from prison. The film was generally well-received; Empire listed it as the 36th-greatest independent film ever made. It was filmed in and around Gallo's hometown of Buffalo, New York, in winter. The title refers to the Buffalo Bills American football team, who had not won a championship since the 1965 American Football League Championship Game (which was actually played on December 28, 1965, four days before 1966 began). The plot involves indirect references to the Bills' narrow loss to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXV, which was decided by a missed field goal. Plot Having just served five years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown is forced to meet with his parents, who were unaware about him being in prison. He kidnaps Layla, a tap dancer, and forces her to pretend to be his wife to his parents. When they meet with Billy's parents, Layla sees that the relationship between them is very dysfunctional, and sees Billy's own mother forgetting he has a chocolate allergy and his father miming along to a song after claiming he used to be a singer. She finds out that Billy's mother has never missed a Buffalo game, except for in 1966, on the day which Billy was born. After visiting his parents, Billy scolds Layla for telling an obvious lie to his father about him working with the CIA and decides to go bowling. Here Billy shows off his expertise at the sport, and Layla gives a bizarre tap dance routine to King Crimson's 'Moonchild'. The two use a photo booth but Billy becomes annoyed when Layla seems to enjoy making silly faces during the photos, in contrast to Billy's straight face. After bowling, Billy and Layla visit a diner, where Billy encounters Wendy, a girl he used to have a crush on back in his school days. Earlier he had asked Layla to pretend to be Wendy to his parents, who is now happily in a relationship with another man. This annoys Billy leading to him and Layla checking into a motel, where Billy and Layla have a deep conversation, and eventually admit that they have fallen in love with each other, and they both go to sleep. It's revealed that Billy was in prison because he was unable to pay the money that he had placed a bet on Buffalo winning the Super Bowl, and now he seeks revenge on the man who lost the game. In the morning, he begins to leave to exact his revenge when Layla awakens. Despite Layla's doubts that he'll return and proclamation of her love for him, he leaves, lying to her that he'll return in a few minutes with hot chocolate for her. Shortly after leaving Layla at the motel, Billy finds the man responsible, Scott Wood (a reference to a former Buffalo Bills kicker, Scott Norwood, who missed the potential game-winning field goal in Super Bowl XXV against the New York Giants in 1991.), and enters the topless bar he's at. Once inside, he walks over to Wood's table and shoots him in the head, before shooting himself. His parents are then shown sitting by his grave with his mother showing more interest