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    The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    PG1975 · Comedy drama · 1h 45m

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  1. 44% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 67% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Neurotic middle-aged New Yorker Mel Edison (Jack Lemmon) is fired from his advertising job, forcing his loving wife, Edna (Anne...

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    • Melvin Frank
    • PG
    • Jack Lemmon
  2. Mel Edison (Jack Lemmon) and his loving wife Edna (Anne Bancroft) live on Second Avenue in NYC. Mel hates the city and his job and complains nonstop. Edna tries to calm him down. Then Mel is laid off from his job and has a complete nervous breakdown. Sounds like a drama but it's not.

  3. The Prisoner of Second Avenue Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Pauline Kael New Yorker. TOP CRITIC. There are no layers of meaning in The Prisoner of...

  4. 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
  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

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  8. CRITICAL OVERVIEW. CRITICISM. SOURCES. FURTHER READING. INTRODUCTION. Neil Simon, one of the most popular of twentieth-century American dramatists, is known for his comedies that often examine the tensions that can arise among family members or between men and women living in New York.

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