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Dog Day Afternoon

  • 19751975
  • RR
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
260K
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POPULARITY
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Al Pacino and John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Trailer for this failed robbery drama based on a true story
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Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre night... Read allThree amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
260K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,134
19
    • Sidney Lumet
  • Writers
    • Frank Pierson(screenplay)
    • P.F. Kluge(based upon a magazine article by)
    • Thomas Moore(based upon a magazine article by)
  • Stars
    • Al Pacino
    • John Cazale
    • Penelope Allen
    • Sidney Lumet
  • Writers
    • Frank Pierson(screenplay)
    • P.F. Kluge(based upon a magazine article by)
    • Thomas Moore(based upon a magazine article by)
  • Stars
    • Al Pacino
    • John Cazale
    • Penelope Allen
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 371User reviews
    • 94Critic reviews
    • 86Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Al Pacino, John Cazale, and Carol Kane in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
    Al Pacino and Penelope Allen in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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    Al Pacino
    Al Pacino
    • Sonny
    John Cazale
    John Cazale
    • Sal
    Penelope Allen
    Penelope Allen
    • Sylvia
    Sully Boyar
    Sully Boyar
    • Mulvaney
    Beulah Garrick
    • Margaret
    Carol Kane
    Carol Kane
    • Jenny
    Sandra Kazan
    • Deborah
    Marcia Jean Kurtz
    Marcia Jean Kurtz
    • Miriam
    Amy Levitt
    Amy Levitt
    • Maria
    John Marriott
    John Marriott
    • Howard
    Estelle Omens
    • Edna
    Gary Springer
    Gary Springer
    • Stevie
    James Broderick
    James Broderick
    • Sheldon
    Charles Durning
    Charles Durning
    • Moretti
    Carmine Foresta
    • Carmine
    Lance Henriksen
    Lance Henriksen
    • Murphy
    Floyd Levine
    Floyd Levine
    • Phone Cop
    Dick Anthony Williams
    Dick Anthony Williams
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      • Sidney Lumet
    • Writers
      • Frank Pierson(screenplay)
      • P.F. Kluge(based upon a magazine article by)
      • Thomas Moore(based upon a magazine article by)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Although he had initially agreed to play the part of Sonny, Al Pacino told Sidney Lumet near the start of production that he couldn't play it. Pacino had just completed production on The Godfather Part II (1974) and was physically exhausted and depressed after the shoot. With his reliance on the Method, Pacino didn't relish the thought of working himself up to a state of near hysteria every day. Lumet unhappily accepted the actor's decision and dispatched the script to Dustin Hoffman. Pacino changed his mind when he heard that his rival was being considered.
    • Goofs
      In 1972, NYC police squad cars were dark green and white, not blue and white which debuted about two years later.
    • Quotes

      Sonny: Is there any special country you wanna go to?

      Sal: Wyoming.

      Sonny: Sal, Wyoming's not a country.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: What you are about to see is true - It happened in Brooklyn, New York on August 22, 1972.
    • Alternate versions
      Recent DVD release replaces the old Warner Bros. logo at the beginning with the newer WB/AOL logo.
    • Connections
      Featured in Lumet: Film Maker (1975)
    • Soundtracks
      Amoreena
      (uncredited)

      Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin

      Performed by Elton John

    User reviews371

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    10/10
    My Ten Commandments of Dog Day Afternoon! ;-)
    I've watched this film for the third time in a few years last night. Instead of writing a straight review, I'd like to jot down ten thoughts just off the top of my head concerning this exquisite movie:

    1) Watching this film will change forever your perception of the bank heist genre, making you question the contrived cinematic conventions these films usually make use of.

    2) The source of this film's paradoxical and/or farcical elements spring from life itself, not from film or pre-existing cinematic conventions. Sometimes, the absurdities of life are so great, they dwarf those included in any form of fiction. Without even trying to make that point, this film captures that concept beautifully.

    3) Its tone in relation to the homosexual theme is ahead of its time. In fact it's ahead of OUR time, even, in hardly making an issue out of it at all - it just IS.

    4) It captures the climate of the 70s in a manner so sober, you'll remember its unshowy yet authentic feel forever.

    5) Lumet's film brings to life the concept of the distorting lens of the media and how different groups with different agendas will turn an outlaw into a hero, with far more efficiency than Oliver Stone's brash, bloated, childish and repetitive Natural Born Killers.

    6) Watching this film will illustrate to the younger generations exactly why Al Pacino has earned himself the legendary status he probably no longer would deserve with his performances of the last 10 years alone. **SPOILERS**: Just watch those last ten minutes of him handcuffed against the bonnet of a car, where he doesn't say a word, but speaks volumes with his eyes and his soul just oozing out of every frame at the end of the movie; you'll remember those eyes for as long as you live!

    7) Watching this film, you'll realise that firing a gun-shot is a BIG DEAL in real life, and that other films make too much use of gun fire in a highly contrived way.

    8) All that tension deriving from pointed guns unable to fire a shot OR move away… you realise Tarantino must've taken notes sometime along the way.

    9) No genre is old or done too many times before if it's handled with this amount of freshness, inspiration and talent.

    10) Watching Dog Day Afternoon for the third time has filled me with the same amount of wonder at the power of truly inspired but unobtrusive film-making as it did first time round.
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    • May 26, 2005

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    • Release date
      • December 25, 1975 (United States)
      • United States
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      • Warner Bros. (United States)
      • English
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      • 285 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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      • Warner Bros.
      • Artists Entertainment Complex
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    • 2 hours 5 minutes
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