Dog Day Afternoon (40th Anniversary) (Blu-ray) R
Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 22, 2015
- Originally Released: 1975
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Pacino & John Cazale | |
Performer: | Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon & Carol Kane | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | Dede Allen | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Pierson | |
Art Direction by | Douglas Higgins | |
Produced by | Martin Bregman & Martin Elfand | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Attica! Attica!"
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Original Screenplay: Frank Pierson
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 9/10 --
Presents a remarkable collection of human beings behaving under stress.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
I was entertained but somewhat less than satisfied, and I hope I can say that and still convey the idea that I think well of the film.
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The Nation
Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall -- an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: A+ --
As much as it is about a deeply troubled individual, "Dog Day Afternoon" is about a shift toward exploitation in the American media via live television.
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ColeSmithey.com
The combination of simmering tension, comedy and pathos is adroitly handled by the director and his excellent cast.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
[Dog Day Afternoon] speaks to a particular moment in an edgy early 1970s New York City -- a post-Stonewall city of people figuring out identities, and bubbling with anti-establishment anger and a nascent culture of exploitation media.
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Salt Lake City Weekly
Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, filmmaking at its best.
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Variety
Product Description:
Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. 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 man and his devastating downward tumble as seen through the media circus that Lumet made a career of chronicling. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart yet 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 realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival, and decides to kidnap a handful of bank employees instead. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and 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.
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