Where the Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam
Theatrical release poster by Ralph Steadman
Directed by	Art Linson
Screenplay by	John Kaye
Based on	"The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat" and "Strange Rumblings in Aztlan" by Hunter S. Thompson
Produced by	Art Linson
Starring	Bill Murray Peter Boyle Bruno Kirby René Auberjonois
Cinematography	Tak Fujimoto
Edited by	Christopher Greenbury
Music by	Neil Young
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	April 25, 1980 (1980-04-25)
Running time	99 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$6,659,377

Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. The film was produced and directed by Art Linson. Bill Murray portrayed Thompson and Peter Boyle portrayed Acosta, who is referred to in the film as Carl Lazlo, Esq. A number of other names, places, and details of Thompson's life are also changed.

Thompson's eulogy for Acosta ("The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat", published in the December 1977 issue of Rolling Stone) served as the nominal basis of the film, although screenwriter John Kaye drew from several other works, including Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and various pieces included in The Great Shark Hunt and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thompson was credited as an executive consultant on the film.