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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 ...
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- Melvin Frank
- PG
- Jack Lemmon
The Prisoner Of Second Avenue is a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it. Plot In A Paragraph: Executive Mel Edison has a nervous breakdown when he suddenly finds himself unemployed. I'm a Jack Lemmon fan anyway, so I enjoy most things that he stars in, and I always enjoy seeing him on screen.
May 5, 1975 · Anne Bancroft. Gene Saks. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.69. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. Added by 3.3K users. 63 User reviews. 24 Critic reviews. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 1 win & 2 nominations total. Videos 1.
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- Comedy
- Melvin Frank
- 1975-05-05
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Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "in Simon's tussles to make jokes, make truth and make jokes about some bitter truths, the outcome is curious, uneven, tense and involving. 'Prisoner' is most impressive when it is least funny; the laughter comes out of a painful craziness." [10]
- Melvin Frank
- Marvin Hamlisch
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue, 1971 play, by Neil Simon
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2005. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers...
Oct 14, 2010 · Movie Reviews. The Prisoner of Second Avenue — Theater Review. Neil Simon's 1971 play "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" is set against the economic slump of its day, so given...
May 5, 2011 · Edison, Jason Alexander, Neil Simon, The Prisoner. The Prisoner of Second Avenue. El Portal Theater; 360 seats; $55 top. Production: A Tom Brocato, Butterfield Road Productions presentation in ...