Image from the motion picture Dog Day Afternoon Image from the motion picture Dog Day Afternoon

The Double Life Of A Restaurateur | Keith McNally Selects: Dog Day Afternoon - 35MM

Crime, Drama, Biography | 1975 | 125MIN

Director

Sidney Lumet

Cast

Al Pacino
John Cazale
Charles Durning

From the true story about a Brooklyn bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day comes a gripping, funny Oscar-winning movie capturing star Al Pacino and director Sidney Lumet at the top of their game. A desperate and crazed man (Pacino in his Oscar-nominated role), with the help of an accomplice (John Cazale), takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation. Lumet also picked up a Best Director nod.

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