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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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My Ten Commandments of Dog Day Afternoon! ;-)
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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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Continuity: In the opening scene, when Sonny is walking to the bank, he holds his gun in some gift wrap. The blue ribbons are crossing where the flower is. In the next shot, the crossing is moved much closer to the top, as if to make it easier to open the box. But when Sonny tries to open the box to get the gun out, the ribbon is back to its starting position.
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Referenced in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999) (VG)
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Easy Livin'
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I've watched this film for the third time in a few years last night. Instead of writing a straight review, I'd like to jot down ten thoughts just off the top of my head concerning this exquisite movie:
1) Watching this film will change forever your perception of the bank heist genre, making you question the contrived cinematic conventions these films usually make use of.
2) The source of this film's paradoxical and/or farcical elements spring from life itself, not from film or pre-existing cinematic conventions. Sometimes, the absurdities of life are so great, they dwarf those included in any form of fiction. Without even trying to make that point, this film captures that concept beautifully.
3) Its tone in relation to the homosexual theme is ahead of its time. In fact it's ahead of OUR time, even, in hardly making an issue out of it at all - it just IS.
4) It captures the climate of the 70s in a manner so sober, you'll remember its unshowy yet authentic feel forever.
5) Lumet's film brings to life the concept of the distorting lens of the media and how different groups with different agendas will turn an outlaw into a hero, with far more efficiency than Oliver Stone's brash, bloated, childish and repetitive Natural Born Killers.
6) Watching this film will illustrate to the younger generations exactly why Al Pacino has earned himself the legendary status he probably no longer would deserve with his performances of the last 10 years alone. **SPOILERS**: Just watch those last ten minutes of him handcuffed against the bonnet of a car, where he doesn't say a word, but speaks volumes with his eyes and his soul just oozing out of every frame at the end of the movie; you'll remember those eyes for as long as you live!
7) Watching this film, you'll realise that firing a gun-shot is a BIG DEAL in real life, and that other films make too much use of gun fire in a highly contrived way.
8) All that tension deriving from pointed guns unable to fire a shot OR move away… you realise Tarantino must've taken notes sometime along the way.
9) No genre is old or done too many times before if it's handled with this amount of freshness, inspiration and talent.
10) Watching Dog Day Afternoon for the third time has filled me with the same amount of wonder at the power of truly inspired but unobtrusive film-making as it did first time round.