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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- 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, 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:
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
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
[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
The combination of simmering tension, comedy and pathos is adroitly handled by the director and his excellent cast.
Sight and Sound
The film's strength lies in its depiction of surfaces, lacking the visual or intellectual imagination to go beyond its shrewd social and psychological observations and its moments of absurdist humour.
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Time Out
One of Sidney Lumet's best jobs of directing and one of Al Pacino's best performances (as a bisexual bank robber) come together in a populist thriller with lots of New York juice
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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
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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- UPC: 883929151233
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