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Dog Day Afternoon
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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 &
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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%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 43

Upright90%

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
[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. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Aug 24, 2008
The combination of simmering tension, comedy and pathos is adroitly handled by the director and his excellent cast.
Sight and Sound
May 1, 2006
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. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
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 Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 27, 2009
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. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
May 30, 2011

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: 33,569
  • UPC: 883929151233
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