Storyline
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Directors
Cast
Al Pacino, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Lance Henriksen, Dominic Chianese, Floyd Levine, Tom Towles, Charles Durning, Ed Metzger, Lionel Pina, Carol Kane, Raymond Serra, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Costanzo, Alan Berger, Gary Springer, Chris Sarandon, Marcia Haufrecht, Judith Malina, John Cazale, Estelle Omens, James Bulleit, Ron Gilbert, Kenneth McMillan, James Broderick, William Bogert, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar, Beulah Garrick, Sandra Kazan, Amy Levitt, John Marriott, Carmine Foresta, Susan Peretz, Ron Cummins, Jay Gerber, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Chu Chu Malave, Lynette Sheldon, Todd Everett
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Reviews
100
Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime.
100
Dog Day Afternoon is a frank social melodrama that’s also a celebration of quotidian bravery. The camera might linger on guns and barely restrained violence, but it also dwells upon the love and the support that’s extended in the weirdest and most unexpected of places.
100
The Telegraph
A masterly reconstruction of a Brooklyn bank siege on August 22, 1972, built around arguably Al Pacino's finest screen performance.
100
The entire cast is excellent, top to bottom. Dog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, film-making at its best.
100
The film's tone is extraordinarily flexible, holding within the same reality elements of the absurd, the ridiculous and the comic while sustaining a sense of tension and dread throughout. This is, of course, one of the classic Pacino roles - he's so appealing - but don't overlook the late John Cazale as his accomplice, who gives us a character who's stupid and scared, troubled and dangerous, and disturbingly inscrutable.
