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50 years agothe crowds were chanting Attica!. On a sweaty, August afternoon, inexperienced criminal Sonny (Al Pacino) and his accomplice Sal (John Cazale) attempt to rob a bank in Brooklyn. Things go wrong from the start, and the hapless crooks find themselves in an increasingly intense pressure cooker as they take hostages and as the media and FBI descend on the scene. Pacino delivers an electric performance as a queer man motivated by love, hoping to fund his partners sex change surgery with the loot from the robbery. Cazele is brilliantly understated as Sonnys quietly anxious but loyal brother in crime. Director Lumet delivers a relentless chronicle of desperation, expertly navigating between the chaos of an active crime scene, to the pain of an intimate phone conversation between Sonny and his lover, Leon (Chris Serandon). Humidity and doom seep through the screen in one of the most powerful films of the 1970s. The movie Dog Day Afternoon was inspired by a real-life 1972 bank robbery in Brooklyn, New York, where John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile, along with a third accomplice, attempted to rob a Chase Manhattan Bank. The pair, hoping to fund Wojtowiczs partners gender reassignment surgery, took eight hostages, leading to a 14-hour standoff with police and a media frenzy. Winner Best Original Screenplay, Academy Awards Nominee Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Chris Sarandon), Best Director, Best Editing, Academy Awards Winner Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Runtime: 2h 10m Format: DCP Rated: R E-tickets and Will-call All tickets purchased online will be sent as e-tickets to the email address associated with your account. The e-tickets will be listed within your confirmation email. If you would like your tickets to be in will-call please call or visit the box office during regular business hours. We can sell you a printed ticket over the phone and in person. If you completed your purchase and received an e-ticket but need a physical ticket please contact the box office before the day of the event and we can print them and have them ready. You can reach us at (812) 323-3020 ext 1.
