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May 5, 1975 · The Prisoner of Second Avenue: Directed by Melvin Frank. With Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson. A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.
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- Comedy
- Melvin Frank
- 1975-05-05
The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a 1975 American black comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed and produced by Melvin Frank and starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft. Neil Simon adapted the screenplay from his 1971 Broadway play.
Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison (Jack Lemmon) is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna (Anne Bancroft), to become the couple's...
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- Melvin Frank
- PG
- Jack Lemmon
The film adaptation of Neil Simon's seriocomic stage opus The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1975) has recently made its way to DVD courtesy of Warner Home Video. Thirty-odd years ago, when this tale of a Manhattanite's crushing battle with mid-life angst had its Broadway run, it was hailed as a worthy effort by the noted farceur to tackle more ...
- Melvin Frank
- Jack Lemmon
Married couple Mel and Edna Edison are middle-aged, empty-nested, middle-class New Yorkers. Mel is slowly unraveling and he knows it. The company for whom he has worked for 22 years has hit difficult financial times, and he is only its latest casualty.
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