Dog Day Afternoon

Production year: 1975

Thriller R   Running time: 2:04 

IMDB rating:   8.0     Aspect: 4:3, Wide;  Languages: English, French, Spanish;  Subtitles: English, French, Spanish;  Audio: DD 1.0

On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic losers set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the follower, and disaster is the result. Because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived. The "well-planned" heist is now a circus. Pacino and director Sidney Lumet, collaborators on Serpico, reteam for this boisterous comedy/thriller that earned six Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), and won an Oscar for Frank Pierson's streetwise screenplay. Based on a true incident, Dog Day Afternoon "Is one of the big ones, swarming with energy, excitement and drama" -Gene Shalit, NBC-TV.

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Features

Audio commentary
Featurettes/Behind-The-Scenes/Documentaries
Interviews
Production notes

Special features

Commentary by Director Richard Shepard
Extended Interviews with Al Pacino and Israel Horovitz
Two Short Films: "The American Way" (1962) and "The Box (1969)
Dog Day Afternoon