Name: Dog Day
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Released: 1984
Duration: 1 h 45 min

Dog Day (1984)

Directed by Yves Boisset / Christian Gaubert

Genres - Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime | Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller | Run Time - 105 min. | Countries - Australia, France | MPAA Rating - NR

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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Dog Day was originally distributed in France as Canicule. In one of his last film appearances, Lee Marvin portrays a gunman on the lam with girlfriend Tina Louise. He briefly takes refuge with a farm family whose idiotic excesses make Marvin's former criminal associates seem like choirboys. The wife of the household (Miou-Miou) falls in love with Marvin, to the extent of planning his escape when the law catches up with him. Also craving Marvin's sexual attentions is the wife's sister-in-law (Bernadette Lafont), the craziest and most pathetic of the bunch. Dog Day was based on Herman, a novel by Jean Vautrin.

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Themes

Fish Out of Water | Lovers on the Lam | Crime Gone Awry

Keywords

government, chase, decadence, fugitive, gangster, girlfriend, helicopter, on-the-run, police, sex, tracking [following], treason, violence, America, dog, espionage, farming, France, hideout, refugee