Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

Overview

Three amateur 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.

Ratings

IMDb 8
TMDB 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes 94
Metacritic 86

Details

Director Sidney Lumet
Cast Amy Levitt, Beulah Garrick, Carol Kane, Estelle Omens, John Cazale, John Marriott, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Penelope Allen, Sandra Kazan, Sully Boyar
Country United States
Release Year 1975
Runtime: 2h 5m
Budget: 50,009,617 USD
Release Date: 1975-12-25
Awards: Won 1 Oscar, 14 wins & 20 nominations total
Tagline: Anything can happen during the dog days of summer. On August 22nd, 1972, everything did.