‘Sex’ shares its urban district with 5 other NY films.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975): Attica! Attica! OK, it takes point in a Brooklyn bank. But what’s more New York than Al Pacino’s portrayal of a frustrated would- be bank shoplifter worrying to come up with the currency for his lover’s sex-change operation? The ensuing media meltdown reminds us that New York is, after all, the media central of the faction - for propitious and bad. Pacino is great and was nominated for an Oscar. When Harry Met Sally. (1989): Derided sort of as Woody Allen light.
So what? Rob Reiner - back when he directed, you know, worthy movies - pilots Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan through a just-friends relation that, big surprise, becomes something more. Lots of walking around in Central Park with leaves falling, that persuasion of thing, worn to laudatory effect.
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