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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 
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Monday, October 07, 2002
Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American television industry, Al Pacino played an equally ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart and tough if 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 the 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. 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 single man and his devastating downward tumble into the cracks of the system that Lumet made a career of chronicling. DOG DAY AFTERNOON reunites Pacino with his SERPICO director Lumet, and stands as one of the finest films of the 1970s.
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John A from Dublin, 18 Feb 2008
Al Pacino is good in almost everything he makes and this film is no exception. Maybe what made the film seem a bit strange was the fact that it was a true story-which meant you had to forgive the script/storyline being a bit slow & protracted in places. Still if you're a die-hard Pacino fan you'll probably be happy enough with this 70's style heist romp.
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Based on a true story?
Florence from Dublin, 29 Jun 2008
It's a good thing it's based on a true story. This is Al Pacino like I've never seen him, bad! The story line seems hard to believe as does some of the portrayal of the events. If I could change back time, I would and rent out something else.
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Pacino is excellent
seamus from Dublin, 23 Aug 2007
i'd heard alot about this movie and wasn't disappointed. its all about Pacino though. he carries the movie. its funny, its dark and it hits the spot
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Dog day
Una from Kildare, 08 Jan 2012
So things better not to watch again better first time for me too old and crinkley now
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Dog Day Afternoon
Roisin from Dublin, 25 Apr 2009
Great film, but it's Pacino who's amazing
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Al Pacino is God (when it comes to acting anyway)
Colm from Dublin, 05 Feb 2008
Just get it.
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