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Additional Information about Dog Day
Afternoon
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Copyright 1981 - 2004 Muze Inc.
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Movie description
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Covers events
from August 22, 1972; Produced and released in 1975. 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 resorts to kidnapping a handful of bank employees when he
realizes that all the money had been removed before his arrival. 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.
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Credits
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Writer:
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Frank
Pierson
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Producer:
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Martin Bregman,
Martin Elfand
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Cast:
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Al Pacino, Carol
Kane, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, John
Cazale
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Details
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Sound:
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HiFi
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Notes
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Theatrical
release: September 21, 1975.
Filmed on location in New York City.
In real life, Pacino's character, Sonny Wortzik,
was serving a 20-year federal prison sentence while the film was
being made.
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Awards
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1975 Academy Awards, Best Actor: Al Pacino
1975 Academy Awards, Best Director: Sidney
Lumet
1975 Academy Awards, Best Original
Screenplay: Frank Pierson
1975 Academy Awards, Best Picture: Martin
Bregman
1975 Academy Awards, Best Picture: Martin
Elfand
1975 Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor:
Chris Sarandon
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