Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Average Rating: 8.5/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 4/5
User Ratings: 98,834
Movie Info
Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before closing time, scheming loser Sonny (Al Pacino) and his slow-witted buddy, Sal (John Cazale), burst into a Brooklyn bank for what should be a run-of-the-mill robbery, but everything goes wrong, beginning with the fact that there is almost no money in the bank. The situation swiftly escalates, as Sonny and Sal take hostages; enough cops to police the
Sep 21, 1975 Wide
Dec 16, 1997
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Cast
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Al Pacino
Sonny -
John Cazale
Sal -
Charles Durning
N.Y. Detective Moret... -
Chris Sarandon
Leon -
Sully Boyar
Bank Manager Mulvane... -
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James Broderick
FBI Agent Sheldon -
Penny Allen
Sylvia -
Carol Kane
Jenny -
Beulah Garrick
Margaret -
Sandra Kazan
Deborah -
Marcia Jean Kurtz
Miriam -
Amy Levitt
Maria -
John Marriott
Howard -
Todd Everett
Cop (uncredited) -
Estelle Omens
Edna -
Gary Springer
Stevie -
Lance Henriksen
Murphy -
Judith Malina
Mother -
Dominic Chianese
Father -
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Susan Peretz
Angie -
Floyd Levine
Phone Cop -
Carmine Foresta
Carmine -
William Bogert
TV Studio Anchorman -
Ron Cummins
TV Reporter -
Chu Chu Malave
Maria's Boy Friend -
Jay Gerber
Sam -
Philip Charles MacKe...
Doctor -
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Lionel Pina
Pizza Boy -
Dick Anthony William...
Limo Driver -
Thomas Murphy
Policeman with Angie -
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (1) | DVD (18)
Enjoyable and even exciting at the start, Dog Day Afternoon degenerates into frustration and tedium toward nightfall -- an experience no less painful for the audience than for the actors.
One of Sidney Lumet's best jobs of directing and one of Al Pacino's best performances (as a bisexual bank robber) come together in a populist thriller with lots of New York juice
[Pacino] gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome.
Top CriticDog Day Afternoon is, in the whole as well as the parts, filmmaking at its best.
The film's strength lies in its depiction of surfaces, lacking the visual or intellectual imagination to go beyond its shrewd social and psychological observations and its moments of absurdist humour.
Top CriticIt's beautifully acted by performers who appear to have grown up on the city's sidewalks in the heat and hopelessness of an endless midsummer.
As much as it is about a deeply troubled individual, "Dog Day Afternoon" is about a shift toward exploitation in the American media via live television.
Strong performances and forward-thinking situations make this political thriller an exceptionally vibrant experience.
Fine, but overrated Pacino vehicle directed by Lumet.
Though fact-based, Lumet's heist film (his best work) is a wild satire with farcical tones about a normless, irrational society whose (anti)heroes are crazy delusional marginal men, played with panache by Pacino and Cazale in their most spontaneous turns
An American classic.
Pure cinema.
An iconic movie, thoroughly New York, with Pacino in top form.
[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.
Few fictional thrillers are as tense or as funny as this real-life recreation.
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.
Pacino simmers in this daring and brilliantly constructed treatise on the many facets of a crime.
Pacino gives an engaging performance.
Pacino at the top of his game. A riveting ride.
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Movies Like Dog Day Afternoon
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- Sonny: Attica! Attica!
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- Pizza Boy: I'm a fucking star!
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- Sonny: Hey Leon! Happy Birthday!
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- Sonny: Put your fucking guns down! Put your fucking guns down! Put your fucking guns down! Put your fucking guns down! Attica! Attica! Attica! Attica! Attica!
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- Sonny: WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LISTEN TOO ME!
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- Sylvia: Why don't you smoke?
- Sal: I don't want the cancer.
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Foreign Titles
- Un après-midi de chien (FR)
- Tarde de perros (ES)
Sadly, for some reason this movie is kinda forgotten when discussing Al's greatest movies/performances. That's because not many people have watched it. So please, if u consider yourself a movie fan, then go rent DDA and watch a fine movie with the legendary Al Pacino performing his art at the absolute peak of his career. 5 stars 8-20-13