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This film is edited by Dede Allen.
Director Sideny Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon is a seminal American crime film. In telling the true story of two hapless men whose attempted bank robbery went awry, Lumet and screenwriter Frank Pierson (who would win the Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay in 1976) crafted a darkly comedic and strangely touching tale starring Al Pacino in perhaps one of the greatest performances of his legendary career.
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
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“[Pacino] gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome.” – TIME Magazine
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