Dog Day Afternoon is a Oscar-winning film based on a true story about a bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day in Brooklyn.
Sonny (Pacino) and his accomplice Sal (Cazale) plan to rob a bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover to have sex reassignment surgery, but they arrive after the daily cash pick-up and soon find themselves in a stand-off with the FBI when they take the employees hostage.
Groundbreaking at the time for its thoughtful and sympathetic consideration of gender and sexuality, though of its time when viewed through a contemporary lens, Dog Day Afternoon is a gripping, funny, and moving film, a classic of 1970s Hollywood.
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