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Dog Day Afternoon
on DVD (1975)
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| Starring: |
Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick, John Cazale, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon |
| Director: |
Sidney Lumet |
| Studio: |
WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time: |
119 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Arabic, English |
| Released: |
07/10/2002
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Brief synopsis of Dog Day Afternoon
Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American television industry, Al Pacino played an equally ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart and tough if self-destructive Brooklyn tough whose plan to rob the local bank to fund his male lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change goes absurdly wrong. Accompanied only by his doltish accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), Sonny resorts to kidnapping a handful of bank employees when he realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and the hordes of local police, led by Sergeant Moretti (Charles Durning), make little progress, and eventually Sonny's wife and lover are brought to the scene. The crowd's sympathy is immediately captured by the charismatic Sonny, whose antagonism with the police is played out before an audience of millions, leading to an inevitably tragic finish.
Balancing suspense, violence, and humor, the film's depiction of a grand scale media event craftily dives from the political to the personal, evoking a piercing portrait of a single man and his devastating downward tumble into the cracks of the system that Lumet made a career of chronicling. DOG DAY AFTERNOON reunites Pacino with his SERPICO director Lumet, and stands as one of the finest films of the 1970s.
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Dog Day Afternoon - Feature
Before Peter Finch was "mad as hell" in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American televisio...
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Dog Day Afternoon - Bonus Feature
Before Peter Finch was "mad as hell" in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American televisio...
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
This is a film about a bank robbery, the proceeds of which are needed to pay for a sex-change operation. Weird but apparently true — well, this is New York. From this material, Sidney Lumet creates a marvellous patchwork of a movie, cutting between the inept but passionate bank robbers (Al Pacino and John Cazale) whose bungled heist turns into a hostage situation, the corpulent cop leading the police siege (Charles Durning) and the mob that gathers outside the bank. It's an insane circus and you know that something, or someone, is going to blow a gasket. Pacino's performance (which earned him a fourth Oscar nomination) is a multilayered display and the whole picture seems infected by his jitters.
Halliwell's Film Guide
Recreation of a tragi-comic episode from the newspaper headlines; for half its length a fascinating and acutely observed film which then bogs itself down in a surplus of talk and excessive sentiment about homosexuality.
Time Out
At first sight, a film with large, self-conscious ambitions where a bank siege (the film is based on a real incident...
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