Al Pacino plays real-life bank robber Sonny Wortzik in “Dog Day Afternoon.” (Warner Brothers/ZUMA Press) But the movie is also full, wonderfully full, of patient, easeful, observational ...

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On a hot summer afternoon, Sonny and two cohorts ... as most of the cash has been picked up for the day. Sonny then gets an unexpected phone call from Captain Moretti of the NYPD, who tells ...

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A desperate and crazed man, with the help of an accomplice, takes a local Brooklyn bank hostage with plans to rob it in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation.