Premier Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson recalls his drugged out misadventures at the turn of the 1970s alongside his rebel rousing attorney Oscar Acosta. These include breaking out of a mental institution, smuggling weapons from Mexico to domestic terrorists, and crashing the 1972 Nixon campaign.
A probably lesser-known predecessor to Terry Gilliam's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Buffalo Roam is a very different movie despite the same sources and subject matter. Considerably more straightforward and not nearly as cracked out, fans of Fear and Loathing looking for a similar experience from Buffalo will likely be disappointed. This is the directorial debut of Art Linson, who would go on to direct one other film and then become a career producer. Still, Bill Murray's Thompson and Peter Boyle's Acosta are delightfully bent characters, and their political and social insights are fairly pointed and on the ball. Other highlights are Rene Auberjenois' performance as a White House correspondent on his first acid trip, and a bathroom run-in between Hunter S and his notorious nemesis, Richard Nixon. Where the Buffalo Roam is also one of a handful of movies that credit Neil Young under "Music By." What that constitutes in this movie, however, appears to be Neil Young singing the Kansas State song a few times (from which the film's title is derived).
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