79%User score 79 percent
Dog Day Afternoon
1975 · Crime · Drama
User Score
198 votes
His revolution was televised.
In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.
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Brent Marchant
October 29, 2025
At a time when many of us may feel like we’re being systematically shafted by big business and powerful financial institutions, it’s natural that some of us might feel justified in seeking retribution against them for their deceitful actions. Such was also the case in February 1977, when an aggrieved borrower sought potentially deadly vengeance against the president of an Indianapolis mortgage company, as seen in thi…
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CinemaSerf
March 27, 2026
Back in 1977, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) took the law into his own hands by brazenly kidnapping the son of the owner of a mortgage company that he felt had left him high, dry and broke. Now we are not taking about a child here, Richard (Dacre Montgomery) is a married adult and father who is frog-marched out of his building with a shotgun tied to his head. They even pinch a police car to drive to his explosives-ri…
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