In Buffalo, New York since getting caught and put in prison for a football ticket scam Peg (Zoey Deutch) gets out and needs a job and gets hired by Wizz (Jai Courtney) who runs a debt collection service. She learns the ropes of debt collecting and later goes out on her own and this causes intense rivalry with Wizz.
Peg wants to be rich and collecting debts seems like a good start. She hires many who have a gift of gab. Peg Buffaloes people in that she has a way of bullying people into doing what she wants. See where the title comes from?
This is kind of a fast paced lesson in debt collecting and we see many of the methods used to collect the money. For Example: someone with a college debt doesn't want a collector to call his mother to get the money; or how about threatening to pull a business license. See? These things and more are done we are told.
In Peg's case, she vows to only use legal means to collect the debt. She becomes friends with Graham (Jermaine Fowler) a lawyer, who is also an Asst District Attorney who wants nothing to do with her unless she is completely legitimate. She claims she is.
Notables: Judy Greer as Kathy, Zoey's mother; Noah Reid as JJ, Zoey's brother who owns a bar.
A great scene in JJ's bar when the police are about to arrest all rival debt collector owners, the TV is on, but we don't see it, but all in the bar see that the Buffalo Bills are about to win a game and they all cheer when it happens. Great scene. Kudos.
What makes this movie about debt collecting is that this business has very little regulation in it and well, you can see how money can be made by lying to debt owners. Another example tells a debt owner that there is a sniper who will shoot him if he doesn't pay up. Extreme, yes, but you get the picture of a poorly regulated debt collection business.
However, this is quite entertaining even though Peg talks too fast thru most of the movie, which sets the pacing to be fast and furious.
Since this movie was in Buffalo, all I can say is: GO BILLS! (7/10)
Violence: No. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: You decide. Language: Yes. Rating: B (3 June 2020)
Peg wants to be rich and collecting debts seems like a good start. She hires many who have a gift of gab. Peg Buffaloes people in that she has a way of bullying people into doing what she wants. See where the title comes from?
This is kind of a fast paced lesson in debt collecting and we see many of the methods used to collect the money. For Example: someone with a college debt doesn't want a collector to call his mother to get the money; or how about threatening to pull a business license. See? These things and more are done we are told.
In Peg's case, she vows to only use legal means to collect the debt. She becomes friends with Graham (Jermaine Fowler) a lawyer, who is also an Asst District Attorney who wants nothing to do with her unless she is completely legitimate. She claims she is.
Notables: Judy Greer as Kathy, Zoey's mother; Noah Reid as JJ, Zoey's brother who owns a bar.
A great scene in JJ's bar when the police are about to arrest all rival debt collector owners, the TV is on, but we don't see it, but all in the bar see that the Buffalo Bills are about to win a game and they all cheer when it happens. Great scene. Kudos.
What makes this movie about debt collecting is that this business has very little regulation in it and well, you can see how money can be made by lying to debt owners. Another example tells a debt owner that there is a sniper who will shoot him if he doesn't pay up. Extreme, yes, but you get the picture of a poorly regulated debt collection business.
However, this is quite entertaining even though Peg talks too fast thru most of the movie, which sets the pacing to be fast and furious.
Since this movie was in Buffalo, all I can say is: GO BILLS! (7/10)
Violence: No. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: You decide. Language: Yes. Rating: B (3 June 2020)