Dog Day Afternoon - Special Edition

Drama

Al Pacino	Sonny
James Broderick
John Cazale	Sal
Charles Durning

Director	Sidney Lumet
Producer	Martin Bregman; Martin Elfand
Writer	Frank Pierson

The Robbery Should Have Taken Ten Minutes. Eight Hours Later, It Was The Hottest Thing On Live TV. And It's All True.

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 follower and disaster is the result. Because the cops, crowds, TV cameras and even the pizza man have arrived.

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. Based on a true incident, Dog Day Afternoon "is one of the big ones, swarming with energy, excitement and drama." (Gene Shalit, Today/NBC-TV).