1975 - the year that changed Cinema forever
Dog Day Afternoon - 50th Anniversary
On a hot summer afternoon three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. Unfortunately, the heist rapidly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Director: sydney lumet
Cast includes: al pacino, john cazale, penelope allen
130 mins / 1975 / usa / english
Part of our 1975 - The Year that Changed Cinema Forever season, celebrating some of the iconic titles celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
On a hot Brooklyn afternoon, two optimistic nobodies set out to rob a bank. Sonny (Al Pacino) is the mastermind, Sal (John Cazale) is the accomplice and disaster is the result. Because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived. As the situation escalates Sonny finds himself with a bank full of hostages in a tense standoff, nervously negotiating a way out with the NYPD. Astonishingly, the events are based on a true story.
Pacino and director Sidney Lumet (collaborators on Serpico) reteam for this boisterous comedy thriller that earned six Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture) and won an Oscar for Frank Pierson's streetwise screenplay.
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