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Dog Day Afternoon

Name: Dog Day Afternoon
Director: Sidney Lumet
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Crime/detective, Thriller
Released: 1975
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Sully Boyar

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Documentary
Drama

1975
Sidney Lumet
119 mins
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Crime drama starring Al Pacino, John Cazale and Charles Durning. On a hot August day in 1972, Sonny Wortzik and two accomplices enter a Brooklyn bank and hold the staff at gunpoint. But the robbery goes wrong and when police surround the building, Sonny and his morose friend Sal become trapped inside with their hostages.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

This film is based on a true-life bank robbery, the proceeds of which were to pay for a sex-change operation. From this material, Sidney Lumet creates a marvellous patchwork of a movie, cutting between the inept but passionate bank robbers (Al Pacino and John Cazale) whose bungled heist turns into a hostage situation, the corpulent cop leading the police siege (Charles Durning) and the mob that gathers outside the bank. It's an insane circus and you know that something, or someone, is going to blow a gasket. Pacino's performance earned him an Oscar nomination, and the whole picture seems infected by his jitters.

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