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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Format:  Blu-ray  (2 Discs)
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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 &
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Directed by
Edited by
Screenwriting by
Art Direction by
Produced by &
Director of Photography:

Memorable Quotes and Dialog:

"Attica! Attica!"

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1975 - Best Original Screenplay: Frank Pierson

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh95%

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Total Count: 43

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 110,030
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. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 27, 2009
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. Full Review
Los Angeles Free Press
Nov 22, 2019
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. Full Review
Salt Lake City Weekly
Oct 19, 2015
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. Full Review
The New Republic
Jan 8, 2018
DOG DAY AFTERNOON swarms with energy, excitement and drama.
Widescreen Review
Apr 1, 2006
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Al Pacino delivers what might be his best performance (certainly top two or three). Full Review
Creative Loafing
Sep 26, 2015
Rating: 9/10 -- Presents a remarkable collection of human beings behaving under stress. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Jan 2, 2016

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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