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One Great Movie!!
Al Pacino plays a ferocious and fed-up bank robber in Lumet's classic film DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Balancing
suspense, violence, and humor, the film's depiction of a grand-scale media event craftily dives from the political to the
personal, evoking a piercing portrait of a man and his devastating downward tumble as seen through the media circus that Lumet
made a career of chronicling. Pacino is heartbreakingly real as Sonny, a smart yet self-destructive Brooklyn tough whose plan
to rob the local bank to fund his male lover's (Chris Sarandon) sex change goes absurdly wrong. Accompanied only by his doltish
accomplice, Sal (John Cazale), Sonny resorts to kidnapping a handful of bank employees when he realizes that all the money
had been removed before his arrival. As the lengthy August day drags on, Sonny and hordes of local police, led by Sergeant
Moretti (Charles Durning), make little progress, and eventually Sonny's wife and lover are brought to the scene. The crowd's
sympathy is immediately captured by the charismatic Sonny, whose antagonism with the police is played out before an audience
of millions, leading to an inevitably tragic finish.
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A Great Movie From A Legend - Al Pacino & a great actor - The late great John
Cazale. {Mr. Cazale died during the filming of The Deer Hunter with Bob DeNiro, he had cancer.} Al & John were good friends
they also were in The Godfather & The Godfather 2 together & also did some plays together... Mr.Cazale
at the time of his death had just got engaged to be married to the great Meryl Streep.... R.I.P John
ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
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