First off, the basis of this movie is factually incorrect. The story is of a guy who is mentally defunctional because of his parents who never cared about him. He was born in 1966 on the day the Buffalos football team won the superbowl. They haven't won since and the guy's mom, an extreme Buffalos fan, wishes she never had her son so she could have seen the game. The problem is that the year was actually 1967. Aside from that, this is actually a great movie. The main character, Billy, is a loner who cares about nobody but himself (which isn't all that much anyways). He goes around yelling at anyone in his way and eventually stumbles upon a girl played by Christina Ricci. Billy just got out of jail and his first order of business is to impress his parents with the amazing wife he claims to have. He then kidnaps Ricci and tells her to pretend he's her husband or he'll kill her. Ricci goes along with the whole thing rather willingly, seeing that Billy doesn't even have a weapon or really any way to force her to actually do anything. But for some reason, Chistina Ricci developes a crush on him after learning more about him.
It's really not a movie that sounds that good plot-wise, but for some reason it is great anyways. The seemingly random scenes and characters shot in great cinematography adds together for one good movie. In fact, you wouldn't know it from my description, but this movie has the coolest shooting scene ever. Oh yeah, did I mention Billy is at one point in debt to a bookie? Well, he is. I guess it's not that bad of a plot afterall seeing that I pretty much enjoy any movie in which somebody owes debt to a bookie.
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