Dog Day Afternoon (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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- Released
- 2/15/05
- DVD Region
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2 (UK, Western Europe, Japan)
Also plays on multi-region DVD players
What region is right for me? - Film and TV Genre
- Drama, General
- Video Format
- PAL
Description
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 realises 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.
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Product Details
- Actors
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Tags
- Run Time (minutes)
- 119
- Award
- OSCAR - Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen 1976
- OSCAR - Best Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen 1976;Frank Pierson
- Audio Format
- English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital
- Mono - English
- Mono - German
- Mono - Polish
- Mono - Spanish
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.85:1
- 16:9 Wide Screen
- Number of Discs
- 2
- Language
- English
- Film Format
- Anamorphic
- Disc Features
- Featurette
- Interactive Menus
- Making Of
- Scene Selection
- After The Filming
- Audio Commentary By Director Sidney Lumet
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- Film Rating (Australia)
- MA15+
- Year of release
- 1975
- Film Rating (UK)
- 15
- Subtitle Language
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
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- Cast & Crew
- Douglas Higgins (Art Director)
- Frank Pierson (Author)
- Anna Hill Johnstone (Costume Designer)
- Victor J. Kemper (Director of Photography)
- Dede Allen (Editor)
- Martin Bregman (Producer)
- Martin Elfand (Producer)
- Charles Bailey (Production Designer)
- Robert Drumheller (Set Designer)
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