Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 26 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon
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[Dog Day Afternoon is] so perfectly executed that it almost feels like the wall of art is being pulled back slightly, revealing the reality of life, in all its messy, contradictory, confusing wonder.
02/28/06
Few fictional thrillers are as tense or as funny as this real-life recreation.
02/24/06
captures perfectly the zeitgeist of the early 1970s, a time when optimism was scraping rock bottom and John Wojtowicz was as good a hero as we could come up with.
02/10/06
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