Stars: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick, John Cazale, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon

Director: Sidney Lumet

Summary: In a story that's so deliriously absurd, it could only be true, Al Pacino stars as a gay man who robs the Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn in order to raise the money for his lover's sex-change operation. DOG DAY AFTERNOON reunites Pacino with his SERPICO director Sidney Lumet, and stands as one of the finest films of the 1970s.

Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American television industry, Al Pacino played an equally ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart and tough if 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 resorts to kidnapping a handful of bank employees when he realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and the 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.
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 single man and his devastating downward tumble into the cracks of the system that Lumet made a career of chronicling. DOG DAY AFTERNOON reunites Pacino with his SERPICO director Lumet, and stands as one of the finest films of the 1970s.

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Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene Access
Subtitles:	Arabic, English
Year:	1975
Release Date:	July 4, 2005
Runtime:	119 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 001024
Keywords:	Day, Dog, General, Afternoon, Drama
Genre:	Drama