DEAD MAN'S WIRE takes some clear scene-for-scene inspiration from Sidney Lumet's DOG DAY AFTERNOON — but then, they're both based-on-a-true-crime thrillers about ordinary people taking hostages and winning unlikely fandoms. We compare and contrast this week: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
Even without the Al Pacino connection, Gus Van Sant's new dramatization of a real-life 1970s hostage situation turned public spectacle was destined for comparisons to Dog Day Afternoon.
