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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.
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.
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 sole breadwinner. Feeling...
- Comedy, Drama
May 27, 2008 · A suddenly unemployed executive and his understanding wife must adapt to their new life.
Nov 10, 2020 · The original trailer in high definition of the Prisoner of Second Avenue directed by Melvin Frank. Starring Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft and Gene Saks.
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.
In his play, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, which ran on Broadway for 788 performances beginning in 1973, Simon's comedy turns darker as he explores the devastating effect that city life can have on a middle-aged couple.
