This is not your typical promotion.Most movies rely on trailers and junkets and movie posters to get the word out.
Not “Buffaloed,” the upcoming Zoey Deutch comedy about a hustler who turns to debt collecting to get out of her dead-end life in Buffalo, N.Y.Magnolia Pictures, the indie studio behind the movie, is partnering with non-profit Rip Medical Debt to eliminate $1.5 million worth of medical debt.
“Buffaloed” opens Feb.
14 in theaters and on demand.Rip Medical Debt is a national 501c3 that uses donations to purchase bundled medical debt portfolios that have gone through collection agencies for months or years.
Using third-party credit data providers, it targets debts specifically incurred by people facing financial hardship, and then forgives them for a fraction of the initial cost.
There’s a lot of people who could use the relief.
An estimated 137 million Americans are struggling to pay medical bills,
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