Peg (Zoey Deutch) is a hustler. From an early age she always had an affinity for being able to make a quick buck with no moral boundaries to impede her. When she is accepted into an expensive college and realises that she will be unable to afford the fees she decides to scalp forged tickets to the beloved Buffalo Bills. A scheme that lands her in prison. As an ex-con and struggling to find work she lands upon a local debt collection agency that may be the answer to her fiscal dreams.

Buffaloed is a low rent mash up of The Wolf Of Wall Street and The Big Short which even the extremely talented Zoey Deutch can not elevate above a mere shoulder shrug of a movie. After Peg proves herself as a smooth talker in the debt collection business she strikes out on her own, collects her own ragtag bunch of employees and gives them the sort of pep talks Jordan Belfort would be happy with. She also gets to give straight to camera speeches explaining the complexities of debt collection whilst the film even has a write up at the end to explain just how despicable and rife debt collection and debt is in America.

Given our antihero is morally corrupt we have an even more amoral villain in Wizz (Jai Courtenay) who considers business to be war, whilst incredibly generic it is his actions that at least propel the film along. Elsewhere we have Judy Greer as Peg’s mother (who also runs an illegal business at her home), Noah Reed as Peg’s brother who just wants to run his bar without her ruining things and a lawyer boyfriend played by Jermaine Fowler who just happens to also want to put Peg in prison.

At just ninety-five minutes this should be a breezy comedy with a moral message. Unfortunately it is a massive misfire that only just keeps it’s head above water thanks to Deutch’s upbeat and fully committed performance.