The Movie: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
What Is It?: Al
Pacino gives one of his less AL PACINO! performances in a based-on-a-true-story
bank heist flick in which his main motivation for grabbing the moola is to pay
for his boyfriend’s gender reassignment surgery. Pacino’s love for Chris
Sarandon humanizes the crook and scrambles the usual seventies super-macho,
anti-hero stereotypes. Godfather co-star John Cazale is great as Al’s partner
in crime.
Why Today?: Today
is National Dog Day, which certainly
applies to the afternoon too.
