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Warner Home Video
Dog Day Afternoon
Director
Sidney Lumet
Classification
R
Genres
Action, Drama
DVD Relese Date
1975
Description
THE ROBBERY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN TEN MINUTES. FOUR HOURS LATER THE BANK WAS LIKE A CIRCUS SIDESHOW. EIGHT HOURS LATER, IT WAS THE HOTTEST THING ON LIVE TV. TWELVE HOURS LATER, IT WAS ALL HISTORY. AND IT’S ALL TRUE. On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the follower, and disaster is the result. Because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived. The "well-planned" heist is now a circus. Pacino and director Sidney Lumet, collaborators on Serpico, reteam for this boisterous thriller that earned six Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and won an Oscar® for Frank Pierson’s streetwise screenplay. Based on a true incident, Dog Day Afternoon "is one of the big ones, swarming with energy, excitement and drama" (Gene Shalit, NBC-TV).
Cast
Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, Penelope Allen
Quotes
Leon: I couldn't explain why I did the things I did. So I went to this psychiatrist who explained to me I was a woman in a man's body. So Sonny right away wanted to get me money for a sex change operation: but where was he to get that? 2500 dollars! My God, he's in hock up to his ears already. Sonny: Bank robbing is a federal offense. You got me on kidnapping, armed robbery. You're gonna bury me, man!