Dog Day Afternoon

Drama, Crime

Al Pacino	Sonny
Penelope Allen	Sylvia
John Cazale	Sal
James Broderick	FBI Agent Sheldon
Charles Durning	Det. Sgt. Eugene Moretti
Beulah Garrick	Margaret
Chris Sarandon	Leon Shermer
Sully Boyar	Mulvaney
Sandra Kazan	Deborah
Marcia Jean Kurtz	Miriam
Carol Kane	Jenny
Amy Levitt	Maria
John Marriott	Howard
Estelle Omens	Edna

Director	Sidney Lumet
Producer	Martin Bregman; Martin Elfand
Writer	P.F. Kluge; Frank Pierson; Thomas Moore

A dramatization of the true events during August 22nd, 1972, a man named Sonny (Al Pacino) engages in a bank heist that goes all wrong. Lasting almost 12 hours, Sonny and his accomplice are met with lengthy hostage negotiations, all the while bringing the character of who he really is out for all to see (and gaining sympathy from some of the hostages in the process!). The motive to all this? ...A way to pay for his gay lover's sex change.