30th anniversary
edition of Dog Day Afternoon on DVD

Based on a true story, Sidney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon (Warner Home Video) gets a two-disc special edition, debuting Tuesday, February 28, in celebration of the film's 30th anniversary. Al Pacino and John Cazale star as two bank robbers whose attempted crime falls apart and becomes a media circus that is complicated by revelations that Pacino's character is stealing the money to pay for gender-reassignment surgery for his lover (Chris Sarandon). Network , also directed by Lumet, likewise premieres in a two-disc edition from Warner on Tuesday; other new releases for February 28 include Atom Egoyan's controversial Where the Truth Lies (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), about a reporter (Alison Lohman) who seeks the truth behind the breakup of a successful comedy team (Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth) 15 years earlier. The film was tagged with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA because of a crucial scene that involves Bacon and Firth in bed together with a woman.