Dog Day Afternoon (1975)


A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

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Released Year: 1975
Runtime: 125 minutes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Directors: Sidney Lumet

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A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.

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Reviews


100
Empire - Adam Smith
Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime.
100
The A.V. Club - Unnamed
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 - Tim Robey
A masterly reconstruction of a Brooklyn bank siege on August 22, 1972, built around arguably Al Pacino's finest screen performance.
100
Variety - Unnamed
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
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle
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.

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