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Release Date:
21 September 1975 (USA)
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Tagline:
The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it's all true more
Plot:
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 10 wins
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17 nominations
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(24 articles)
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
(From Extra. 4 November 2009, 4:45 AM, PST)
A Conversation with Katt Shea
(From Fangoria. 20 October 2009, 2:07 AM, PDT)
(From Extra. 4 November 2009, 4:45 AM, PST)
A Conversation with Katt Shea
(From Fangoria. 20 October 2009, 2:07 AM, PDT)
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Pacino - Lumet: as good as De Niro - Scorsese
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Al Pacino | ... | Sonny Wortzik |
 | John Cazale | ... | Sal |
 | Charles Durning | ... | Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti |
 | Chris Sarandon | ... | Leon Shermer |
| Sully Boyar | ... | Mulvaney |
| Penelope Allen | ... | Sylvia |
| James Broderick | ... | Sheldon |
 | Carol Kane | ... | Jenny |
| Beulah Garrick | ... | Margaret |
| Sandra Kazan | ... | Deborah |
 | Marcia Jean Kurtz | ... | Miriam |
| Amy Levitt | ... | Maria |
| John Marriott | ... | Howard |
| Estelle Omens | ... | Edna |
| Gary Springer | ... | Stevie |
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Runtime:
125 min | Finland:131 min (1975)
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:12 (re-rating) (2006) |
West Germany:16 (original rating) |
UK:15 (video rating) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Canada:R (Ontario) |
New Zealand:M (re-rating) (2006) |
New Zealand:R18 (orginal rating) |
Netherlands:MG6 |
Portugal:M/18 |
Netherlands:12 (original theatrical version) |
South Korea:15 |
Brazil:14 |
Argentina:18 |
Australia:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:15 |
Norway:16 (1976) |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:15 |
USA:R |
UK:X (original rating)
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In the 1972 "Life" magazine article that inspired the film, P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore describe robber John Wojtowicz as "a dark, thin fellow with the broken-faced good looks of an Al Pacino or a Dustin Hoffman". Al Pacino, of course, played the role based on Wojtowicz, and when he nearly quit the film early on, the role was offered to Dustin Hoffman.
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Continuity: When Sonny first meets the FBI agent he holds his hand up to shield his eyes from the light, when the camera cuts to the FBI Agent from the back of Sonny's waist, his hand is immediately at his side. When we see Sonny's face again he is raising his hand to shield his eyes from the light once again.
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Wow! The seventies were sure a great decade, just look at all the movies that battled for an Oscar in 1975 to have a good idea about it!This movie has everything anyone could wish in a great movie: a good script, even if the story is based on real events, great direction (Lumet knows how to deal with tense situations as he had already demonstrated it in his debut film 12 Angry Men), great acting (Pacino in his splendor, even better than in Godfather, Part I). The pacing is extremely good: it is very nervous and the camera moves a lot in the first third of the movie but then the whole thing seems to melt into a lifeless, tensionate and slow movement suggesting very well the whole situation as the bank robbery that was supposed to be fast and eventful turns into a hostage situation which is challenging and tensionate. The issue of homosexuality was very well dealt with, not preaching in any way, understanding and considerate, everything was far better than any politically correct angle we may find in today's movies. The movie is hard to place in a single genre, it is essentially a drama of the rejected (Sonny is a war veteran, a homosexual, an unemployed, and by the end of the movie an outcast), but it starts as a thriller and it touches elements of social satire( the family angle, the issue of police corruption and incompetence etc.), comedy and even absurd. This is a movie that I will surely see as soon as possible!