Dog Day Afternoon (HD DVD, 2007, Special Edition) 
Dog Day Afternoon (HD DVD, 2007, Special Edition)

 
Dog Day Afternoon (HD DVD, 2007, Special Edition)

Leading Role: Al Pacino,John Cazale
Director: Sidney Lumet
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Apr 2007
Format: HD DVD
Additional Info: Special Edition
UPC: 085391136897
Product ID: EPID58633376
Description: Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Balancing suspense, violence, and humor, the film's depiction of a grand-scale media event craftily dives from the political to the personal, e...
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Movie Description
Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. 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 man and his devastating downward tumble as seen through the media circus that Lumet made a career of chronicling. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart yet 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 realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival, and decides to kidnap a handful of bank employees instead. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and 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.

Credits
Producer:Martin Elfand
Cast:Chris Sarandon, James Broderick

Details
Edition:Special Edition

Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "Pacino gives one of the performances of his career....Lumet's gritty 1970s landmark remains one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to deal with gay and transsexual characters in a relatively unsensational manner..."
Uncut - Stephen Dalton (03/01/2006)

"DOG DAY AFTERNOON swarms with energy, excitement and drama."
Widescreen Review - Danny Richelieu (04/01/2006)

"The combination of simmering tension, comedy and pathos is adroitly handled by the director and his excellent cast."
Sight and Sound - Matthew Leyland (05/01/2006)

Awards
1975Academy AwardsBest Original ScreenplayFrank Pierson

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