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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Sidney Lumet
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Actors:
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Marcia Jean Kurtz,
John Cazale,
Penelope Allen,
Sully Boyar,
James Broderick,
John Marriott,
Gary Springer,
Beulah Garrick,
Sandra Kazan,
Amy Levitt,
Al Pacino,
Charles Durning,
Chris Sarandon,
Carol Kane,
Estelle Omens
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Duration:
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125 min.
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Rating:
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(8.2/10)81
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Plot Summary:
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Based upon a real-life story that happened in the antique seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege nigh a gay bank robber tenacious to prig enough money to his masculine lover to submit to a sexual congress shift operation. On a boiling summer afternoon, the Elementary Savings Bank of Brooklyn is held up at near Sonny and Sal, two down-and-evasion characters. Although the bank manager and female tellers to not to intervene with the robbery, Sonny finds that there's actually nothing much to steal, as most of the ready has been picked up conducive to the... day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone from Police Captain Moretti, who tells him the place is surrounded by the city's entire monitor significance. Having few options under the circumstances, Sonny nervously bargains with Moretti, persistent right escort to the airport and a level gone of the country in return for the bank employees' safety.
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What a blinder!
I saw this film for the first time ever today and thought that it was absolutely fantastic!
Bank robbery goes a bit wrong, pacino becomes an anti-hero i won't say any more just watch it!!!
Dog Day Afternoon
This film is the 'mostly true' story of Sonny Wortzik (in real life his name was John Wojtowicz), a married man who tries to rob a bank in order to pay for his male lovers sex change operation. If you're an Al Pacino fan you're in for a real treat -- this is certainly among his finest performances.
'Dog Day Afternoon' is a classic crime movie with some great comic moments in there as well. The fact that Sonny is gay isn't a huge issue in the film. He's just a man who's robbing a bank, and the film shows that his intentions or his sexuality aren't really as important as the media make them seem. On the whole he's portrayed as a sympathetic character, but there are hints of a darker side to his personality, such as the descriptions of him co...
Dog Day Afternoon
Recreation of a tragi-funny happening from the newspaper headlines; for half its span a fascinating and acutely observed film which then bogs itself down in a overdose of talk and cloying sentiment almost homosexuality.
Dog Day Afternoon
Fortgang Dog Day Afternoon was the second collaboration between director Sydney Lumet and Al Pacino, coming two years after Serpico, and it racked up an array of firsts. This was the mainstream American flick to deal with transgender issues without sniggering behind its manual labourer. It was the first skin to deal with a televised hold-up, and it was aggregate the prime films to pick a significant escort actor as explicitly bisexual, despite that smooth if the proposed give up between Pacino and John Cazale not in a million years altogether came about. The story, although based on real events, has the lurid quality of something cooked up by Paul Morrissey in favour of Joe Dallesandro in Corporeality, Refuse or Heat. But Lumet, a chairman whose 1970s...
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