Dog Day Afternoon
Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 23, 1997
- Originally Released: 1975
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Pacino & John Cazale | |
Performer: | Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick & Carol Kane | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | Dede Allen | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Pierson | |
Art Direction by | Douglas Higgins | |
Produced by | Martin Elfand & Martin Bregman | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Attica! Attica!"
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1975 -
Best Original Screenplay: Frank Pierson
Entertainment Reviews:
[Pacino] gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome.
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TIME Magazine
DOG DAY AFTERNOON swarms with energy, excitement and drama.
Widescreen Review
Aided by a tour de force performance by Al Pacino, and a finely written script by Frank Pierson, Lumet has once again hit the mark.
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Los Angeles Free Press
On the other and substantial hand, most of those segments are very good. If the whole is less than the sum of the parts, if there really is no sum of the parts, those parts those parts are extraordinarily well made.
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The New Republic
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Al Pacino delivers what might be his best performance (certainly top two or three).
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Creative Loafing
The combination of simmering tension, comedy and pathos is adroitly handled by the director and his excellent cast.
Sight and Sound
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
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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- Sales Rank: 114,487
- UPC: 012569102422
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