Al Pacino
Sonny Wortzik
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Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, and Charles Durning.
- $50–56 million
- $3.5–$3.8 million
Dec 25, 1975 · Based on a true story, Al Pacino plays a bank robber who takes hostages in a Brooklyn bank and demands a plane to escape. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
A classic film about a bank robbery gone wrong and a hostage situation in Brooklyn. See the cast, crew, reviews, ratings, photos, and where to watch this 1975 masterpiece directed by Sidney Lumet.
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- Sidney Lumet
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- Al Pacino
- Who Was John Wojtowicz?
- An Odd Robbery and The Hostage Situation That Followed
- The Aftermath of John Wojtowicz’S Heist and The Film It Inspired
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John Wojtowicz, born in New York City in 1945, was leading a basically “normal” life in the late 1960s. After graduating high school and serving in Vietnam, he returned home and began working for Chase Manhattan Bank, where he struck up a relationship with a coworker named Carmen Bifulco. The pair married in 1967, but Wojtowicz had been keeping a s...
Eager to get the money for Eden’s gender-reassignment surgery (although, according to the BBC, some claim that John Wojtowicz actually carried out the robbery to pay back money he’d borrowed from the Mafia), Wojtowicz soon put together a team that would help him rob a bank. He recruited Bobby Westenberg and Salvatore Naturile (both of whom he’d met...
Wojtowicz was sentenced to 20 years in prison but only wound up serving five and was released in 1978. While in prison, he actually was able to see Dog Day Afternoon and take in the lead performance of Al Pacino, who had, of course, also starred in The Godfather, which Wojtowicz had watched the day of the robbery. The warden initially objected to h...
John Wojtowicz was a gay activist who robbed a bank in 1972 to pay for his partner's gender-reassignment surgery. His heist turned into a 14-hour standoff with the police and inspired the classic film Dog Day Afternoon.
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A film about a bank robber who becomes a celebrity and a study of his complex character, based on an actual event in New York. Ebert praises the film's humor, irreverence, and social commentary, but criticizes its length and clichés.
Dog Day Afternoon. True story about a bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day when two optimistic losers, the frantic master-mind Sonny, and his slow-witted buddy Sal, attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days.
A movie based on a true story of a bank robbery gone wrong in Brooklyn, New York, in 1972. The robbers, led by Sonny, a transgender lover, hold hostages and negotiate with the police for a plane escape.
