Dog Day Afternoon

Name: Dog Day Afternoon
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: December 25, 1975
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 86
Cast: Al Pacino, Amy Levitt, Beulah Garrick, Carol Kane, John Cazale

1975

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: December 25, 1975 | R

Starring: Al Pacino, Amy Levitt, Beulah Garrick, Carol Kane, John Cazale, John Marriott, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Penelope Allen, Sandra Kazan, Sully Boyar

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

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 125 min

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Empire Adam Smith

Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime. Read full review

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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. Read full review

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Chuck Bowen

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. Read full review

Todd Gilchrist

For all of its social, political and cinematic significance, Dog Day Afternoon is a terrifically entertaining and emotionally devastating film to boot. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Dog Day Afternoon is a melodrama, based on fact, about a disastrously illplanned Brooklyn bank robbery, and it's beautifully acted by performers who appear to have grown up on the city's sidewalks in the heat and hopelessness of an endless midsummer. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Lumet is exploring the clichés, not just using them. And he has a good feel for the big-city crowd that's quickly drawn to the action. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall—an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors. Read full review

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Habibiehakim

Sep 30, 2021

The movie doesn't even need to show a background story for Sonny (or John Wojtowicz, the real person name), the movie just get straight to it, and that's a very very right decision to do, it's perfect, so do the actor, the performance, the story, everything, Dog Day Afternoon is an excitingThe movie doesn't even need to show a background story for Sonny (or John Wojtowicz, the real person name), the movie just get straight to it, and that's a very very right decision to do, it's perfect, so do the actor, the performance, the story, everything, Dog Day Afternoon is an exciting and yet a very intense must watch true story film.… Expand