Dog Day Afternoon (DVD, 2006)

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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 realises 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.

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ProducerMartin Bregman, Martin Elfand
EAN7321900337274
eBay Product ID (ePID)50477303

Product Key Features

ActorChris Sarandon, Charles Durning, Al Pacino, James Broderick, John Cazale, Carol Kane
Film/TV TitleDog Day Afternoon
DirectorSidney Lumet
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageEnglish\French\Spanish
Run Time119 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen
Release Year2006
FormatDVD
FeaturesDocumentary Based On A True Story 2004\Audio Commentary By Director Sidney Lumet\The Story\Casting Controversy\Recreating The Facts\After The Filming\Lumet Filmmaker Featurette\Theatrical Trailer, Widescreen, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Production DesignerCharles Bailey
AwardsBest Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen 1976 - Frank Pierson
ReviewsChicago Reader - One of Sidney Lumet's best jobs of directing and one of Al Pacino's best performances (as a bisexual bank robber) come together in a populist thriller with lots of New York juice, Empire - Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime, New York Times - Sidney Lumet's most accurate, most flamboyant New York movie
Art DirectorDouglas Higgins
Costume DesignerAnna Hill Johnstone
AuthorFrank Pierson
Set DesignerRobert Drumheller
EditorDede Allen
Movie/TV TitleDog Day Afternoon
Director of PhotographyVictor J. Kemper

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  • Good original creative script

    I wrote a review on this film in a weekly paper when it came out. So amusing that is why I had to buy this and see it again

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  • Dog day afternoon

    Pacino at his Best an exellent film bought at a great price thanks.

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  • Very good dvd

    Very good film dvd.

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  • Classic film

    This is a film you couldn't write the script for, did it really happen, yes it did. I love it, the acting is superb, the plot off the wall, it really makes me laugh, and I could watch it over and over.

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